About Melinda
Melinda Perry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Colorado with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and self-esteem. Melinda values respect and compassion in sessions and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable.
Her work often centers on emotional healing and clearer communication. She helps people facing relationship strain, family problems, parenting challenges, and issues tied to adoption, attachment, or caregiver stress.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with trauma, anger, ADHD, and questions around identity including LGBT concerns. Melinda adapts her approach to each person. She listens for what matters most and offers options that fit the client’s needs and life situation.
Goals and techniques are chosen together rather than imposed. In practice she emphasizes building skills that can be used day to day. That can mean learning to manage anxious thoughts, improving how someone expresses needs, or finding ways to grieve losses without getting stuck.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on real-life change. People find it helpful that she respects their perspective and right to make decisions about treatment. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Melinda aims to make the first steps easier by offering clear next steps and steady support.
How Melinda's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify their own goals and choices. This approach often helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions because it centers the client's experience.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying, naming, and working with strong emotion. It helps people understand patterns that arise in relationships and within themselves, which can be useful for grief, trauma responses, and anger. EFT aims to change emotional responses into more helpful ways of relating to problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps ensure sessions focus on the most relevant skills and perspectives for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for shorter check-ins, quick reflections, and work that fits around a busy schedule. These options provide flexibility to match changing routines and differing comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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