About Melanie
Melanie Bartholomew is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She welcomes people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. Melanie aims to make the first steps feel doable and clear.
Her style is down-to-earth and practical. Sessions focus on honest conversation and small, realistic changes. She avoids labels and listens for the real-life patterns behind problems.
How Melanie works
Melanie draws from several approaches to shape a plan that fits each person. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client. She also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT techniques to build emotional regulation skills.
Common topics she helps people address include relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting challenges, blended family concerns, work stress, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing life transitions, midlife questions, and career shifts. In sessions she pays attention to family of origin patterns and commitment or control issues that often show up in daily life.
Melanie works with mood disorder concerns such as bipolar and panic symptoms, and she offers compassion when clients deal with compassion fatigue. Her aim is to help people find a clearer sense of purpose and self-love. She partners with clients to set goals and take practical steps toward lasting change.
Melanie lists 4 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's goals so sessions reflect what matters most. This approach helps when people need validation, clearer priorities, or a safe space to sort feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT can be useful for anxiety, panic symptoms, mood challenges, sleep problems, and workplace stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That shared decision-making lets sessions stay focused and practical while adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full face-to-face conversation, phone is handy when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text work well for quick check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
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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