About Melanie
Melanie Kennedy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and LGBT-related issues. Melanie aims to offer a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what matters to them and start finding clearer ways forward.
Her approach is practical and person-centred. Sessions begin by listening to what the individual is most worried about.
Background and approach
Melanie then works with them to set simple, realistic goals and tries different ways of working until something fits. Melanie draws on several therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioural tools to tackle unhelpful thinking patterns and acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based action. Attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas help when relationships and closeness are causing pain or confusion.
She supports people through grief, addiction, chronic illness, body image concerns and challenges such as ADHD, burnout and work stress. Melanie also addresses more specific areas like abandonment worries, blended family pressures and aspects of alternative sexual cultures, always keeping the person’s chosen goals in view. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs, with a steady, collaborative style.
Melanie encourages small practical steps alongside emotional processing, so people leave sessions with something they can try between meetings.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck in worry. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns that fuel anxiety and testing small changes to reduce distress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current connection patterns affect relationships and emotional safety, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and help the person decide what feels most useful. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs and goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier if movement or visual focus is difficult. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching-style work or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work and family commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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