About Melanie
Melanie Dente is a licensed counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She helps people who are dealing with panic, grief, workplace issues, or life changes. Her approach centers on building practical skills people can use outside of sessions.
Melanie holds LPCC and LMHC credentials and practices in Ohio. She has six years of clinical experience supporting people after abuse, assault, and other traumatic events. She guides clients through managing strong emotions and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
In sessions she teaches techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to test unhelpful thoughts and develop different responses. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. For trauma symptoms she offers trauma-focused methods including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
Her style is direct and skill-oriented. She encourages people to build a toolbox of coping strategies and to identify professional and personal supports. She asks clients to practice skills between sessions and to try new ways of handling stress.
Melanie sets clear goals and gives regular feedback. She challenges people to take steps toward their goals while also pointing out progress along the way. She emphasizes safer choices and stopping behaviors that cause harm.
People who work with her can expect steady skill teaching, concrete practice, and an emphasis on real-world change. Melanie looks for measurable improvements and helps clients notice their successes as they move forward.
How Melanie’s Methods Fit Online Care
CBT teaches people to notice and test unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviors. It is useful for panic, anxiety, mood concerns, and workplace stress and translates well to online sessions through discussion and skill practice. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It offers concrete exercises - like grounding and breathing techniques - that clients can practice during and between remote sessions. EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that works on processing painful memories and reducing their emotional charge. When used online, the therapist guides the process verbally and with structured activities that adapt to remote formats. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend one or a mix of methods. Decisions are adjusted over time based on what is helping. Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people practice skills in real time and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Washington
- Languages
- English
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