About Melanie
Melanie Martinez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and depression. She writes plainly and listens closely to help people speak about what is worrying them. Melanie aims to make starting therapy feel less overwhelming for anyone taking that first step.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She creates a calm space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what matters most in a person's daily life. Melanie blends practical tools with reflective work. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies support noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior approaches to help with emotion regulation and relationship challenges. Client-centered methods guide how she listens, keeping the person front and center in planning the work together.
With about ten years of professional experience, Melanie has helped people navigate grief, trauma, addiction concerns, sleeping and eating issues, and career or parenting stress. She also supports those dealing with attention differences, chronic health challenges, and complicated family dynamics. Melanie works with people over video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started and then schedule sessions that fit their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without avoiding them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on what matters most and how to act toward those goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It teaches concrete strategies for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and addressing sleep or eating concerns through practical exercises and homework.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, letting the person guide what matters most in therapy. This approach supports building trust and shaping goals that fit someone's life and priorities.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people move forward without rearranging their whole day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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