About Marjorie
Marjorie "Marj" Melchreit offers help for stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, career upheaval, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy questions, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Marj holds an LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker - and has practiced in Ohio for over 32 years.
Her sessions are warm and straightforward. She uses practical conversation and simple exercises rather than jargon. People can expect clear goals and step-by-step ideas to try between sessions.
How Marjorie works
The tone is respectful and down-to-earth. Marj draws on client-centered work to focus on each person's needs. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing help people find motivation and calm in daily life. She brings long experience with many complex concerns, including trauma and abuse, addictions, and family of origin issues. That background also covers topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, body image, and cancer-related challenges.
The aim is to help people regain functioning and clearer decision-making. Sessions often include problem-solving, skills practice, and reflection on values and goals. Marj helps people set realistic next steps and checks progress over time.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
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What Marjorie works with
The areas below are the ones Marjorie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people explore feelings and make choices that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. That approach often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they decide whether to prioritize problem-solving, skill-building, motivation, or calmness practices, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use facial cues and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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