About Melanie
Melanie Hamilton-Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people coping with life changes and the ripple effects those changes bring. Melanie writes plainly and listens with warmth, aiming to make conversations feel steady and straightforward.
Her approach is practical and focused on what works for each person. She blends Rational Emotive Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, and solution-focused strategies to help people identify unhelpful thoughts, try different behaviors, and build small reachable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be action-oriented and paced to fit what a person needs in the moment. In the room she keeps tone open and nonjudgmental. There is an emphasis on no-blame problem solving and understanding how feelings and choices connect.
People leave sessions with concrete steps to try between meetings and ways to track progress. With 23 years of experience, Melanie draws on a long clinical background while keeping language simple and direct. She supports work on communication problems, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose, money concerns, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and sexuality.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after a short matching questionnaire.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Melanie uses Rational Emotive Therapy to help people identify and challenge rigid or self-defeating beliefs. That can be useful for anxiety, guilt, and situations where harsh self-talk keeps someone stuck. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to link thoughts, feelings, and actions, then test small behavior changes to reduce distress and build confidence.The therapeutic approach is chosen together. Melanie treats finding the right fit as a collaborative process and adapts techniques to a person's goals and preferences. Clients and therapist check in regularly to see what is working and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter real-time check-in, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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