About Melanie
Melanie Dente helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, grief, anger, and work-related strain. She supports those coping with big life changes, relationship and family concerns, mood and panic disorders, and effects of domestic violence or disaster. Melanie approaches care with practical skills and steady encouragement.
Melanie is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She has six years of clinical experience and has worked extensively with people who have survived trauma.
How Melanie works
Her work focuses on teaching skills clients can use every day to manage symptoms and handle intense emotions. Sessions are focused and hands-on. Melanie helps people test and reframe unhelpful thoughts.
She teaches emotion regulation and communication skills so people can act differently in stressful moments. She also helps clients identify safe supports in their lives and reduce risky behaviors. Her approach emphasizes building a toolbox of strategies.
That includes skills from cognitive and behavioral methods, mindfulness techniques, and trauma-focused work. Melanie sets clear goals, challenges clients to try new ways of coping, and marks progress as changes happen. Clients describe a mix of challenge and cheerleading in sessions.
Melanie pushes for growth but also helps people notice wins along the way. She welcomes people ready to do the work of change and to build skills for long-term coping.
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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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Online therapy approaches for trauma and emotion skills
Melanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as part of her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts that cause distress and teaching concrete skills to change unhelpful behavior. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories in a step-by-step way to reduce their emotional intensity. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques to teach emotion regulation, stress tolerance, and present-moment awareness. Finding the right approach is part of the process; Melanie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and comfort level. Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy days or work breaks. These formats make it easier to build and practice new skills from wherever someone can join a session. Melanie combines her trauma-focused and skills-based methods with flexible session types to meet each person's circumstances.Start online instead of waiting
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