About Melanie
Melanie Mullins is a licensed mental health counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She holds licenses as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and practices in New York. Melanie focuses on creating a nonjudgmental space where people can say difficult things out loud and be heard.
Her approach emphasizes a strong therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change. She uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people reduce anxiety and depression.
Background and approach
Melanie helps clients identify areas where they have control and build step-by-step strategies to improve daily life. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. Conversations often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new skills, and setting concrete actions.
Melanie blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas to help people handle painful feelings and move toward what matters to them. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit the goals of the work. That mix allows for both emotion regulation and movement toward meaningful change.
Melanie aims to support, educate, and empower people as they navigate difficult situations. People come to her for help with stress, trauma, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, mood issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, ADHD, and other life transitions. Her practice emphasizes clear steps and compassionate listening to help people make practical improvements.
Approaches shaping online sessions
Melanie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT often includes simple exercises and homework to practice new ways of thinking and behaving, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches people to notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and to take actions that match their values. ACT can help when someone wants to make meaningful changes while still carrying painful emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Melanie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most and what feels doable.
Online therapy with her is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter way to check in between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, New York
- Languages
- English