About Melanie
Melanie Hendricks is a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina. She brings 26 years of experience to sessions and focuses on anxiety among other concerns. Melanie aims to create a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard topics and start making changes.
She often uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice how thoughts influence feelings and actions. That work includes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Melanie also looks at the systems around a person - for example family roles and relationship patterns - to understand how interactions keep problems going and where changes can help. Her background includes long experience in outpatient mental health settings and work with people affected by sexual trauma and intimacy or sexual concerns.
That experience shapes how she approaches trauma, grief, and issues like compulsive behaviors or sexual dissatisfaction. Melanie emphasizes clear, direct communication and respects each person's pace. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Melanie encourages feedback so therapy stays relevant and responsive to what each person needs. She frames progress as learning new habits and ways of thinking rather than quick fixes. Melanie works in English and accepts international clients.
She combines a calm, caring manner with practical strategies to help people reduce anxiety and address related concerns like depression, sleep problems, or relationship stress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Melanie regularly uses cognitive-behavioral approaches, which involve noticing thoughts and testing them against real situations to change feelings and behavior. This approach is often useful for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns.She also draws on a systems perspective, looking at the roles and patterns within relationships that influence how someone reacts. That way of working helps with relationship stress, parenting issues, and recurring patterns that feed anxiety or anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. She treats therapy as a partnership where client feedback shapes the plan and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you see facial cues for a fuller conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat works for focused check-ins, and messaging lets someone write through thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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