About Melodie
Melodie Heupel-Carney helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of clinical work and a calm, straightforward manner. Her focus includes trauma and abuse, addictions, and self-esteem struggles.
She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with space to talk through painful memories and current challenges.
Background and approach
Melodie listens closely and offers tools people can use between sessions. Her work draws from several approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and emotion-focused techniques. These methods help people manage difficult thoughts, clarify values, and repair painful emotional patterns.
Mindfulness practices are used to slow down strong emotions and return attention to the present. Melodie has handled a wide range of concerns over her career, including caregiver stress, relationship and attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, and substance problems. She supports people coping with separation, domestic violence, and losses caused by disaster.
She practices in Oklahoma and provides services in English. People typically start by answering a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that fit their needs. Melodie aims to create a steady, respectful space for change.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting hard feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to emotional patterns in relationships and individual life stories to create safer emotional responses and heal hurt.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melodie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on how a person responds, and she explains options in plain language so decisions are shared.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can fit a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, South Dakota
- Languages
- English