About Melanie
Melanie Williams is a licensed clinical professional counselor with more than two decades in mental health care. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and depression. Melanie uses a straightforward, goal-oriented style and helps people take practical steps toward feeling better.
She draws on 22 years of experience in schools, corrections, independent practice, and adjunct teaching. That background shaped a down-to-earth approach that blends talk therapy with practical lifestyle supports.
Background and approach
Melanie also earned an MD and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, and she holds the LCPC credential. Her sessions tend to be direct and focused on clear goals. Melanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
She also brings person-centered listening and solution-focused planning to tailor work to each person's needs. Melanie has worked with people dealing with abandonment and attachment concerns, avoidant personality patterns, blended family issues, body image and eating-related struggles, and codependency. She also supports those facing communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, jealousy, and commitment worries.
Outside of therapy work, Melanie has pursued health and fitness training and nutrition coaching. She combines those interests with traditional therapy when clients want a broader wellness plan. Her style is practical, sometimes direct, and aimed at achievable change.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Melanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try different behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is practical and problem-focused, useful for stress, anxiety, and depression.She also uses person-centered listening to reflect what matters most to each person and build a trusting working relationship. Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and identify small steps that lead to change. These approaches work well together when someone wants clear goals plus supportive listening.
Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. Melanie works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts those methods over time based on what is helping.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone calls can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text works for quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to connect despite busy schedules or distance.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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