About Melanie
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, mood struggles, and issues related to identity and relationships. Her style is warm and straightforward and she aims to make therapy a place to talk and figure things out.
Melanie takes a person-focused approach that centers what matters to each individual. She uses practical tools so people can notice thoughts and feelings, try different actions, and build routines that fit their life.
How Melanie works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs rather than following one rigid method. She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, intimacy-related problems, and workplace stress. Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, eating and substance-related problems, codependency, and blended family challenges.
Depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue are also within her focus areas. Melanie draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Those methods are blended to match what helps a person move forward, not applied the same way to everyone.
People who come for help can expect calm, plainspoken guidance and concrete next steps. Melanie aims to help people build coping skills, strengthen relationships with themselves and others, and create clearer directions for change.
Melanie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Melanie works with
The areas below are the ones Melanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that line up with their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by shifting the focus toward meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood through specific exercises and homework. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences affect current connections, which is useful for intimacy, attachment issues, and family of origin concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Melanie will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She blends techniques rather than sticking to one model so sessions stay relevant and useful over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, and chat or text messaging can help with quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving demands.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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