About Melanie
Melanie Livingston is a licensed professional counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She focuses on practical steps to manage difficult emotions and on clearer communication when relationships feel strained. Melanie offers straightforward support for people facing big life changes.
That includes separation or divorce, grieving losses, and shifts in identity or purpose. She pays attention to issues like codependency, body image, feelings of emptiness, and problems with trust and commitment.
Background and approach
Her style centers on building self-compassion and teaching concrete coping skills. Sessions often include problem-solving, communication practice, and strategies to reduce impulsive behavior connected to substance use. Melanie uses approaches grounded in evidence to help clients make steady progress.
She draws on five years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania as a licensed professional counselor - LPC. Melanie frames work as a collaboration, matching tools to each person’s situation and pace. She works in English.
People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through what matters most right now. The focus is on small, achievable changes that add up over time. Melanie aims to help clients regain a clearer sense of direction and more reliable ways to cope.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Melanie commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and goal-focused, often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.She also draws on dialectical behavioral therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. DBT skills are helpful when strong emotions or impulsive reactions make daily life harder.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Melanie works with each person to identify goals and then matches strategies to what feels most useful. She adjusts methods over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or those who prefer typing. These options help people access consistent care from their current location and on a schedule that fits daily responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English