Melissa Averett, M.Ed, LA | Mind Diagnostics

Licensed

Online Counseling

(44 reviews)

M.Ed, LPC Melissa Averett

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

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Melissa Averett is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: M.Ed, LPC Years in Practice: 13 State: Louisiana

My name is Melissa Averett. I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor. I earned my Master Degree in Education Counseling at Southeastern Louisiana University in 2008. I’ve worked 4 years in a residential setting with woman recovering from addiction. I also worked 9 years providing outpatient counseling to adults for wide range of struggles and mental illness. I help Clients that have experienced the trauma of divorce begin the healing and forgiveness process. I use Person Centered Counseling to build rapport and help my clients identify their counseling need and set counseling goals. I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Restructuring to help clients identify, dispute and restructure maladaptive thoughts into healthier thoughts and beliefs. I like to teach my clients about healthy boundaries, how to improve self esteem, choices and consequences, healthy coping skills and assertive communication skills to improve relationships. I will make a great effort to demonstrated warmth and empathy as we work on difficult issues toward your therapeutic goals.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Self esteem Depression Coping with life changes Addictions Relationship issues Family conflicts Trauma and abuse Grief Sleeping disorders Parenting issues Anger management Bipolar disorder Compassion fatigue ADHD
Languages Spoken: English

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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Melissa is the greatest. She listens and she gives great advice and is humble. I couldn’t ask for a better therapist

Melissa is awesome! She has done such a great job with making my feel heard and validated.

She truly is one of a kind. She is always so helpful. I am blessed to have her as a part of my healing journey. I couldn’t be happier with her help.

She’s Awesome.

Very helpful

Excellent empathy with kind, caring personality

Melissa is so supportive and kind. I've really enjoyed my counseling time with her.

Melissa is great!

Melissa is a fantastic listener and offers excellent insights in our sessions. I'd recommend her to anyone needing someone to open up to.

Melissa is an amazing therapist I highly recommend her for college student my age

Awesome therapist! Feel like I get a lot out of each session. And when I need to reach out, she will find time to respond. Love having her as my Therapist

Melissa is extremely helpful and does her absolute best not to interrupt you while you're speaking. Which I Highly appreciate. Conversations with her seem to flow naturally. She has this..... Aura I guess, about her that just makes you wanna talk at times. 10/10 great therapist.

Glad to be able to have a session when it’s convenient for me and so glad to have Melissa as my therapist!

Melissa is a great listener and helps me to process my thoughts and emotions. She's great at dealing with trama and providing tools for me to handle the trama responses/triggers that I experience. My mental health and overall confidence and wellbeing has improved immensely.

So many positive things to say about Melissa Averett, she has help me in so many ways, grateful for her time and advice.

Amazing therapist! Shes helped me very very much!

Melissa is awesome. She listens, provides great insight, and relates to what I am sharing. There haven’t been any topics brought up where I felt judged or unsupported.

Melissa has helped me through sorting out trama and healing from it. She has provided many helpful resources. She listens and validates my experience. I am very grateful for her.

She is just the therapist I needed, she listens laughs and comfort me. And she is a Christian

Melissa is great at hearing me out and given me different ways to help me build confidence in myself

Compassionate professional, very responsive to messages, convenient scheduling

Doc. Averette, is super nice and respectful. Each session feels impartial to me because she actually want you to be better and do better. She doesn't interrupt you, she let's you take time that you need when explaining things. Overall very happy with having her as my Therapist.

I was hesitant to start therapy but Melissa has made this a good experience and I would recommend her to anyone looking for a therapist

Melissa is great

Melissa is a great listener and has insight into things I'm discussing. She is helpful and very encouraging.

Love Melissa she is very helpful

Melissa is a caring therapist that truly listens. She gives such thoughtful and knowledgeable feedback!

Melissa is wonderful— patient, wise, and kind. She has helped me grow so much. I will definitely be requesting her again!

She is the best!! I love how well she balances listening with encouragement and great suggestions and ideas.

Melissa is AMAZING! Her feedback is always on spot and I felt like she was my best friend that I could talk to about absolutely anything and everything from the first message she sent me! She gives worksheets to help with everyday life and gets me thinking more clearly about my every day struggles and is available to talk whenever I need her!

I went through grooming /abuse as a child. Now going though life changes. She gave me information to understand my symptoms and I’m surprised on the things I learned. I am understanding myself a little more. She is very sweet. I feel very comfortable talking with her. Her worksheets have helped me a lot and so far I have felt a difference in my confidence and talking more about how I feel. I feel great after I’m done with sessions. I would totally recommend Melissa she is lovely!

she’s so helpful and amazing

My first therapy experience….. I’m not very trusting and my daughter guided me to seek therapy. I’m so thankful that Melissa is a Christian professional and open and immediately she helped me in every way it was so much more than I had anticipated. I was very nervous about beginning for the first time but she always has a smile and encouraging word and her suggestions for me to try new things or look at things in a different perspective I don’t know how I made it without her assistance and encouragement. Her prayers during session and Her texting with me on my first weekend because I had opened up too many cans of worms at once and she could tell that it was going to overwhelm me so she text me often on the first weekend and she recorded a prayer two or three different times that just settled my nerves immediately. I really felt like I was the culprit and I was wrong in every circumstance I had I just couldn’t process it she validated my feelings and understood and we shared some common experiences . if I interviewed for days and had to choose it would’ve been her. Thank you to your company and Melissa for growing trust where there was none♥️ I’m healing.

I think Melissa 's support is amazing!

Great listener she really understands the issues I work on

Melissa is fantastic!!

Melissa is very compassionate and understanding. I like her approach to counseling as she is not judgmental and she offers practical and spiritual wisdom. She has been nothing but a blessing to me throughout this whole ordeal.

I feel like Melissa reads and listens to understand what I’m saying and how it makes me feel. She is great!

Melissa has been the compassionate and kind help that I needed at a difficult time. I would happily recommend her and her skills.

Melissa Averett is an amazing woman and counselor. She’s a good listener. And she has already helped in the one video session we’ve had and her messages to me pull me through a lot. I can tell she actually cares about her people not as (patience) but their humanity. She cares about humanity. And it shows.

I have had many different therapists over the years. None have been a better fit for me than Melissa. She is very empathetic and extremely knowledgeable about my struggles. She sends me worksheets to help in between sessions and always responds to my messages. I’m so thankful to get to work with her.

Melissa is wonderful! I really enjoy our sessions and look forward to each time that we meet. She is very gentle and thoughtful in her approach and I can tell in a short time that she truly wants what is best for me and her other clients. I’m awfully glad that we matched on this platform. Look forward to continuing to work with Melissa.

I've only been talking with Melissa for a short time now but she's been very helpful from the start. I was a little wary and unsure of this kind of counseling but those feelings were gone quickly. It's great to be able to send my thoughts and feelings whenever I'm having them knowing that she'll read them and respond with helpful thoughts, insight, and suggestions. Our first video session went great and wasn't awkward at all! Melissa really listens and cares. I'm so glad I took a chance and signed up because this is something I want to keep in my life. Honestly I prefer it to the traditional once weekly counseling I've had in the past.

I think Mrs Melissa is wonderful. She sees my messages and doesn't just automatically answer them. She responds to let me know that she has seen them and she hears me. But wants to take a moment to fully process them. And she then truly hears what I say and then gives her response. She never belittles me or chastises me for my negative thinking or anything. She encourages and pushes me to do better. Our video sessions go great as well. She always allows me to say what I need to be said but she also keeps me on track with what our goal is. She gives me works sheets after our session to help me achieve my desired goal(s) and they are good tools. And she will occasionally send another to help if I mention another struggle I'm having, even before our video session. Mrs. Melissa is easy to talk to, I was extremely nervous talking to her at first and I was honest and told her that and she has always put me at ease. I have truly enjoyed the time I have had with her and I look forward to continuing our progress to helping me be a better version of myself.

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