About Melanie
Melanie Hendricks is a licensed social worker with 26 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, direct care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Her practice also includes help for grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and LGBT-related issues.
Melanie draws on approaches that look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and on systems thinking that examines relationships and roles.
How Melanie works
She uses straightforward conversation to identify patterns that keep people stuck and then works with them to try different ways of thinking and acting. Sessions focus on real-life changes rather than abstract theories.
She has spent many years in outpatient mental health settings and has experience with sexual trauma, survivors of abuse, and sexual health concerns including compulsive sexual behavior and sexual dissatisfaction. Melanie aims to create a space without judgment where sensitive topics can be addressed openly and practically. Her style is easy-going yet purposeful.
She listens, gives clear feedback, and invites clients to be active partners in the work. Goals are shaped to each person's needs and paced to what feels manageable. Melanie is licensed in South Carolina as a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice, LISW-CP.
She provides services using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she works with clients in English including international clients when appropriate. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. Payment uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Melanie works largely from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, which involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and patterns and practicing different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress. This approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and many everyday stressors.She also uses a systems-oriented way of looking at problems, which means examining how roles and relationships influence behavior and change. That perspective can help with relationship tension, parenting stress, and patterns that repeat across settings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Melanie will talk with clients about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust what she does based on feedback. The aim is to pick practical steps that feel doable and to adapt over time as needs change.
Online therapy makes this work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or use brief nightly check-ins. Altogether these formats make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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