About Melanie
Melanie Sharp is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other life challenges. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can make daily life easier and more manageable. Melanie uses a warm, interactive style that aims to respect each person's story.
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then works with the person to set clear, achievable goals.
How Melanie works
Her approach combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic ideas to address both immediate problems and deeper patterns. Over 21 years of practice have given her experience with a wide range of concerns. These include relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, parenting stress, work and career questions, and substance use.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and life transitions. Melanie pays attention to family of origin issues, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and communication or commitment problems. She offers practical coaching around coping skills, sleep issues, anger management, and rebuilding purpose after loss or isolation.
Her sessions combine listening, reflection, and hands-on techniques such as behavior change strategies and motivational interviewing. People who want a respectful, goal-focused guide to work through current problems and plan for the future will find a steady, experienced clinician ready to partner in that work.
Melanie lists 6 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches and Online Therapy Options
Melanie often uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, person-focused space where concerns are heard and the person guides the pace of change. This approach helps when someone needs support sorting out values, priorities, or emotional reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another common method she uses to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replace them with practical alternatives that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and address mood problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Melanie will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before, and then recommend strategies aligned with those needs. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video can allow more direct conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different formats to see what works best.
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