About Melanie
Melanie Bartholomew is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use now. Her tone is direct and respectful, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
With 15 years of experience, Melanie draws on common-sense strategies and several evidence-based approaches to tailor care. She avoids labels and instead looks at how life transitions, losses, and adjustment struggles shape day-to-day problems.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely, asks concrete questions, and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Her work includes support for people recovering from trauma or emotional abuse and those dealing with grief, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, anger, or workplace stress. Melanie also addresses mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms, panic attacks, and attention challenges like ADHD using practical tools.
She offers focused help with blended family issues, family of origin concerns, commitment and control struggles, and midlife or young adult transitions. Therapy with Melanie emphasizes collaboration. She and the client shape goals together and pick skills that fit the client’s life.
Sessions move between skill practice, problem solving, and moments of reflection so change can be noticed between meetings. People who prefer clear steps, straightforward feedback, and a compassionate listener often find this style helpful. Melanie aims to support clients through the hardest early steps toward a more manageable life.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. In this approach Melanie emphasizes empathy, respect, and helping people name what matters most so they can choose small, doable changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Melanie uses CBT techniques to help people test unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and reduce symptoms like panic, insomnia, or persistent worry.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Skills from DBT can help with anger, emotional overwhelm, and maintaining connections while making changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Melanie will work with each person to identify goals and try techniques that match needs and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins without video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel, and allow regular contact to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English