About Melanie
Melanie Duffin welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and listens closely to help someone make sense of difficult feelings. Melanie aims to create a calm space where a person can speak honestly and start to find small, practical changes that make life easier.
Melanie has a degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and holds BACP registration. She brings ten years of experience to sessions and focuses on problems such as trauma and abuse, family concerns, and loss.
How Melanie works
She also supports people coping with chronic illness, body image worries, and issues around attachment and abandonment. Her way of working is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on building everyday strategies that fit into real life.
Techniques draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help with unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. Melanie also draws on client-centred values to make sure each person feels heard and respected.
Jungian approaches inform work with personal meaning and recurring life themes. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without being controlled by them and to take action towards valued goals. It is useful for anxiety, stress and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns to reduce distress and improve coping. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Melanie will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and adjust methods as therapy progresses. That collaborative process helps make sure sessions match what the person wants to change rather than following a fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video is good for a near face-to-face feel, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or mobility limits while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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