About Marjorie
Marjorie "Marj" Melchreit is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) practicing in Ohio. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, career shifts, or big life changes. Marj offers steady, practical support and straightforward guidance.
Her style is warm and client-centered. She listens first and adapts strategies to fit each person. Sessions focus on clear goals, problem solving, and building day-to-day coping skills.
Marj uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to reduce anxious thinking and improve daily routines.
Background and approach
She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to help people clarify goals and take small, realistic steps toward change. With 32 years of experience, she brings a long history of helping people manage addictions, relationship struggles, sleep disruption, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to life context, such as adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and health-related challenges. People who work with Marj can expect practical exercises between sessions and focused conversations in the room. The aim is to leave each session with tangible next steps.
Marj communicates in plain language and keeps the process grounded in what matters most to each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Marj draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to help people manage anxious thoughts and build steadier daily habits. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, which can be useful for stress, sleep issues, and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in everyday moments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Over time, techniques can be adjusted so sessions remain practical and relevant to real-life challenges.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep visual connection when that helps progress. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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