Meet Melissa LaCour, LPC | Adult Adoptee & Adoption Specialist in Lafayette, LA
Warm, direct, and grounded therapy for adult adoptees, relationship struggles, and life transitions in Lafayette, LA and online.
You Don’t Have to Educate Your Therapist on Your Lived Experience
Starting therapy can feel exhausting—especially if you spend the first three sessions trying to explain what adoption fog feels like, or why attachment wounds show up in your relationships.
I became a therapist because I know what it feels like to have deep questions about who you are and feel like you don't have a safe, grounded space to ask them.
As an adult adoptee, I bring both lived experience and specialized clinical expertise to our work. You don't have to explain the terrain to me. I already understand the complexities of identity formation, search and reunion, abandonment loss, and relational dynamics from the inside out.
My Approach to Therapy
No rigid worksheets you could have Googled. No clinical jargon. Just honest, warm, and direct conversation that actually goes somewhere—helping you understand yourself more fully so you can show up with confidence.
Melissa LaCour, LPC
Therapy for Adoption & Identity, Relationship Patterns & Attachment, and Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Clinical Specializations & Focus Areas
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Adoption & Identity
Processing adoption fog, birth-family reunion/contact, identity development, grief, and abandonment wounds.
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Relationship Patterns & Attachment
Healing anxious or avoidant attachment styles, boundary setting, and breaking cycle-repeating relationship patterns.
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Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Navigating career changes, grief, mid-life shifts, and major identity pivots.
Credentials & Clinical Qualifications
M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC): Louisiana License #7708
Out-of-State Telehealth Provider: Authorized to see clients via Telehealth in Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio.
C.A.S.E. TAC (Training for Adoption Competency): Specialized clinical training through the Center for Adoption Support and Education—the gold standard in adoption-competent care.
TBRI® Practitioner (Trust-Based Relational Intervention): Evidence-based, attachment-centered intervention designed for relational and developmental trauma.
Trauma-Informed Modalities: Specialized training in TF-CBT (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and FFT (Functional Family Therapy).
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It should feel worth your time.
Every session should feel productive — not necessarily easy, but purposeful. You should leave feeling like something happened, even if it was hard.
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The relationship is the work.
Therapy isn't just what happens in the session — it's the trust we build over time. That safety is what makes real change possible.
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You are the real expert on you.
I bring the clinical knowledge. You bring the lived experience. The best outcomes happen when we work as partners — not when I hand you a plan.
Know yourself. Show up fully.
In-person in Lafayette, LA · Telehealth in Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, & Ohio.