About Melanie
Melanie Bartholomew is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping someone take practical steps forward.
Melanie uses a down-to-earth style that avoids labels and focuses on adjustment to life changes. She listens first, then shapes conversation and goals to what the person actually needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at small, useful changes rather than jargon or one-size-fits-all plans. Her work draws on client-centered principles that prioritize the person's perspective and on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Melanie also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused methods when they fit the situation.
She combines these tools to match the client's goals and pace. In practical terms she helps people manage panic, mood swings, anger, low self-esteem, sleep disruption, and workplace strain. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, blended family issues, and questions about life purpose.
The focus is on achievable steps like new routines, communication strategies, and thought-practice exercises. Melanie describes therapy as a collaboration. She encourages honesty about what is hard and works with each person to build a plan they can try between sessions.
Her goal is to help people feel steadier and more able to move toward the life they want.
How therapy approaches translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening to your experience and following your lead. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard, to sort out feelings, and to decide what matters most in their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful habits; it is useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and mood concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods feel most helpful. Together you will try techniques, review what works, and adjust the plan to match your goals and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you use visual cues and longer session work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or when speaking without video feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework exchange, and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep momentum while working toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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