About Melanie
Melanie Kennedy offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strains or questions about identity. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to help people take manageable steps toward feeling steadier. Melanie is a BACP counsellor with eight years of practice in the United Kingdom.
She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, grief and trauma. She also supports people dealing with intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping struggles, parenting pressures and career stress.
How Melanie works
Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment worries, body image, ADHD and care-related strain. In sessions, Melanie adapts her approach to fit each person. She uses evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside a client-centred stance.
Conversations are practical and aimed at helping people notice what matters, test new ways of coping and change patterns that cause pain. Melanie describes the first steps as collaborative. She will listen to what you want to change, outline options and agree on small goals you can try between meetings.
The style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on clear techniques and real-life practice. Melanie offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Sessions can address complex situations like blended family tensions, chronic health challenges, codependency and sexual culture concerns such as kink and BDSM in a nonjudgemental way.
Melanie lists 9 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Melanie's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and helping people act in line with their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches straightforward tools to break unhelpful cycles, which is useful for stress, sleeping problems and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and work with emotional patterns that affect relationships and intimacy, supporting shifts in how someone expresses needs and responds to others.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods collaboratively and adapt techniques based on what helps most. That means sessions are tailored as understanding grows and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel and hands-on exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or mobility is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching or days when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to help people fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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