About Melanie
Melanie Lingley is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and relationship concerns. She has nine years of experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed, stuck or unsure where to start. Melanie aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can begin to talk about what matters to them.
She adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach. Sessions often look at thoughts, patterns and everyday habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Melanie also helps people cope with grief, trauma, anger and changes in family life. Her work draws on ways of talking that centre the person, practical thinking tools, and mindfulness practices to build small, steady changes. She also uses deeper psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns when these feel relevant.
This mix helps with low mood, self-esteem difficulties and obsessive or compulsive behaviours. Melanie is registered with NCPS in the United Kingdom and offers support in English. She can guide people through concerns about parenting strain, blended family issues, caregiving stress and midlife questions.
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, with an aim to help people make manageable steps forward. To begin, Melanie suggests a straightforward matching process and scheduling that fits the client's routine. The work is paced to each person's needs, with ongoing review of what is working and what to try next.
How Melanie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. The therapist listens and follows the client's lead, helping them find their own solutions and build confidence. This approach is useful when someone wants a supportive space to talk through feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviours that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and small experiments that can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Melanie will discuss goals, try different methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful. She aims to make decisions about method and pace collaboratively, so the work matches the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, family or other commitments. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are available for brief check-ins or to communicate when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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