Melba (Fran) Roberts, LPC

Melba (Fran) Roberts is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on grief, life-limiting illness, and the losses people face. Melba brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and centers the person rather than the problem.

She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling and Human Services from the University of Colorado. For nine years she worked at Pikes Peak Hospice as a grief counselor, helping people navigate bereavement and end-of-life concerns. That background shaped her interest in hospice, caregiver stress, and related emotional challenges.

Melba uses client-centered methods first and tailors other approaches as needed. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Jungian insights, and psychodynamic ideas. In practice she listens, clarifies what matters to each person, and offers practical ways to cope.

Her specialty areas include stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, parenting and family issues, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on cancer-related distress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, caregiver strain, guilt and shame, and isolation.

Sessions move at the client’s pace. Melba emphasizes giving voice to pain, building self-compassion, and finding ways to live with life changes. People seeking help for grief, major life transitions, or ongoing caregiving strain may find her approach supportive and steady.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small actions in that direction. It helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes by teaching values-based steps rather than chasing certainty.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client's experience. The therapist listens without judging, mirrors what is heard, and supports the person in finding their own answers. This approach is useful for grief, relationship concerns, and building self-compassion.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It offers practical techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep distress going, which can help with anxiety and day-to-day coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or adapt methods that fit the client's goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can shift over time as circumstances change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make scheduling easier and help sessions fit into busy days. It can also allow shorter check-ins, avoid travel time, and make it simpler to continue therapy during medical treatment or caregiving duties.