About Melinda
Melinda Andre is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, and ADHD. She frames sessions around clear goals and practical steps. Her style is direct but warm, with attention to what each person needs right now.
She brings 22 years of clinical experience to sessions. That background includes work with parents on reunification and parenting challenges, support around addiction and domestic violence, and helping people cope with anger and major life changes.
Background and approach
Melinda also has experience with adoption and foster care, attachment and family of origin concerns, and blended family issues. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and emotion-focused work. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies when people want quick, concrete changes.
In practice that means talking through patterns, trying new ways to manage thoughts and behavior, and setting small steps you can put into daily life. Sessions emphasize respect, honesty, and forward movement. Melinda and the person she’s working with build a treatment plan together and track progress toward the goals chosen.
She focuses on practical skills for coping, improving communication, and reducing symptoms that get in the way. People contact her for help with communication problems, caregiving stress, codependency, substance use concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or emptiness. Her work aims to make changes that fit the person’s life and last beyond the therapy room.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and can identify their own goals; it helps when someone needs space to figure out what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact, then uses concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions and use that understanding to shift how they connect with others and handle conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they decide what methods to try, and adjust the plan over time if different tools are needed.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through material in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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