Melinda A. Ensley, NCC, LPC-S, LMFT
Nationally Certified Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor - Board Approved Supervisor
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Certified Professional Life Coach
Melinda's education and experience is in general mental health issues with a focus on: Grief and Loss, Death and Dying, Chronic and Terminal Illness; Victims and Post-Trauma; Families in Transition; Corporate Wellness and Career Direction; Addictive Disorders; Couples and Marriage and Family.
Melinda is a Mandeville High graduate and moved back to Louisiana after finishing graduate school in Tallahassee. She has worked in the public, non-profit and private sectors for the past 20 years as a licensed practitioner.
Melinda has created and developed a Grief & Loss workshop and retreat as well as Corporate and Group Wellness Workshops on a variety of interpersonal and wellness issues.
Licensed Professional Counselor - Board Approved Supervisor
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Certified Professional Life Coach
Melinda's education and experience is in general mental health issues with a focus on: Grief and Loss, Death and Dying, Chronic and Terminal Illness; Victims and Post-Trauma; Families in Transition; Corporate Wellness and Career Direction; Addictive Disorders; Couples and Marriage and Family.
Melinda is a Mandeville High graduate and moved back to Louisiana after finishing graduate school in Tallahassee. She has worked in the public, non-profit and private sectors for the past 20 years as a licensed practitioner.
Melinda has created and developed a Grief & Loss workshop and retreat as well as Corporate and Group Wellness Workshops on a variety of interpersonal and wellness issues.
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"In counseling and therapy, an alliance is formed to help you move toward emotional healing, improved interpersonal relationships or a healthier lifestyle. Throughout the therapeutic process, goals will be established which will help you grow emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. In my view, the relationship between feelings, thoughts and behaviors is crucial to understanding the issues that affect being successful in life and relationships. I use a variety of strategies that can help people make sense of their world but mostly cognitive behavioral in nature. Yet, my overall theoretical basis is holistic, in that my study and experience have shown me an individual's emotional, mental, spiritual and relational selves are so intertwined that even though they can pull each other down, through good diagnosis and coordinated treatment, they can pull each other up as well." - Melinda
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Contact Melinda at 985-414-3333 (text preferred) and she will return your message within the next business day.
Hours:
Saturdays 11:00-4:00
Counseling / Therapy Rates:
Initial Diagnostic Assessment - 1 hr - $150
Individual Counseling - 45-50 min - $90
Couples & Family Counseling - 45-50 min - $105
Group Counseling - 45-50 min - $60
Life Coaching
$350 / month for 3- month program
$400 / month for 1- month "trial"
Education:
Florida State University
B.S. Bachelors in Psychology 1992
PsiChi Honor Society in Psychology
M.S. Masters in Counseling and Human Systems 1996
Ed.S. Education Specialist in Mental Health 1996
What is Life Coaching?
Coach/Client Relationship: An alliance is formed to help you move toward your specific goals. Throughout the coaching process objectives will be established, and exercises completed, which will help you reach your desired goal.
Melinda's Areas of Coaching Expertise focuses on two specific groups of people:
1. Individuals & Families coping with chronic or terminal illness (physical, mental or emotional), death & dying or those facing other traumatic family adjustment.
2. Professional Working Moms
> Time management
> Work / Life Balance
Goal Setting – A step by step process ending with a full self-assessment, mission statement and goals in 7 life areas. The end result is effective streamlined communication & decision making made easy!
Coaching Process: During the process of coaching, clients must make their own decisions regarding such things as career choices or changes, health care, time management, etc. Coaches help you think through the possibilities and consequences of decisions, but typically do not advise you to make a specific decision. When coaching is done properly by coach and client, decisions reveal themselves and the client won't even desire advice in making their own decisions.
Hours:
Saturdays 11:00-4:00
Counseling / Therapy Rates:
Initial Diagnostic Assessment - 1 hr - $150
Individual Counseling - 45-50 min - $90
Couples & Family Counseling - 45-50 min - $105
Group Counseling - 45-50 min - $60
Life Coaching
$350 / month for 3- month program
$400 / month for 1- month "trial"
Education:
Florida State University
B.S. Bachelors in Psychology 1992
PsiChi Honor Society in Psychology
M.S. Masters in Counseling and Human Systems 1996
Ed.S. Education Specialist in Mental Health 1996
What is Life Coaching?
Coach/Client Relationship: An alliance is formed to help you move toward your specific goals. Throughout the coaching process objectives will be established, and exercises completed, which will help you reach your desired goal.
Melinda's Areas of Coaching Expertise focuses on two specific groups of people:
1. Individuals & Families coping with chronic or terminal illness (physical, mental or emotional), death & dying or those facing other traumatic family adjustment.
2. Professional Working Moms
> Time management
> Work / Life Balance
Goal Setting – A step by step process ending with a full self-assessment, mission statement and goals in 7 life areas. The end result is effective streamlined communication & decision making made easy!
Coaching Process: During the process of coaching, clients must make their own decisions regarding such things as career choices or changes, health care, time management, etc. Coaches help you think through the possibilities and consequences of decisions, but typically do not advise you to make a specific decision. When coaching is done properly by coach and client, decisions reveal themselves and the client won't even desire advice in making their own decisions.
