About Melinda
Melinda Matney is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her style is warm and interactive, and she aims to treat people with respect and compassion.
She focuses on practical talk and skills that can be used between sessions. Melinda combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with client-centered conversation, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress-tolerance practices.
Background and approach
Sessions are adjusted to each person's needs and goals rather than following a single formula. Melinda commonly helps people navigating life changes, career fatigue, issues around intimacy and sexuality, and concerns related to bipolar disorder and severe mental illness. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and low self-esteem.
Her work includes addressing LGBT concerns and family-related stress from an individual perspective. Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, then helps set goals and build a plan. That plan may include short-term strategies for managing anxiety or grounding tools for intense emotions, alongside longer-term work on relationships or grief.
Melinda aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can name what matters and try new ways of coping. She encourages practical steps, small wins, and ongoing adjustment as needs change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Melinda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and depression, and teach ways to test and shift those thoughts. Mindfulness and emotion-regulation practices teach simple exercises to notice feelings, slow reactivity, and ride intense emotions without acting on them.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Melinda will listen to your goals, try techniques that may help, and adjust the plan based on what works for you. You decide which tools feel useful and which need more time or a different angle.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, journaling-style exchanges, or quick coping reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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