About Melanie
Melanie Martinez is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life changes. She also supports clients facing grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep and eating struggles, anger, self-esteem problems, and career stress. Melanie works in Colorado and brings ten years of experience to her practice.
She aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental. Conversations focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Melanie uses practical tools and clear language so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. Her approach blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness with client-centered listening. That means Melanie helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new behaviors, and build awareness of feelings.
She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior strategies when those fit a person's goals. Melanie commonly addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care. She also works with people facing chronic illness, codependency, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence.
Sessions are shaped around the specific problem the client brings. Practical matters are part of the work. Melanie can guide people toward better sleep routines, healthier eating patterns, and coping plans for sudden stress.
She offers a mix of skills practice and reflective conversation so clients leave with concrete next steps. Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Melanie helps people set realistic goals and measures progress in ways that feel meaningful.
Her style is steady, compassionate, and focused on real-life change that fits each client’s day-to-day world.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify personal values and take manageable action toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily function; it is commonly used for anxiety, mood issues, and sleep or eating problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and help decide whether ACT, CBT, or a client-centered listening approach is the best fit. That choice is revisited as progress is made so methods can shift to match evolving needs.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and face-to-face connection, phone sessions work when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited, live chat enables short check-ins or brief reflections, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make it easier to build regular habits, fit therapy into a busy schedule, and practice new skills in everyday settings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English