About Melvin
Melvin DuBard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. He focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, career questions, and life changes. Melvin aims to make the first steps toward help feel simple and direct.
He uses straightforward, respectful conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions typically look at current problems and the thoughts that keep them stuck. From there he and the client build small, practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Melvin draws on client-centered and solution-focused ways of working. He also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Jungian themes and motivational interviewing may appear when they fit a person’s goals.
With 15 years in counseling and related roles, he has supported people through grief, trauma, relationship strains, workplace stress, and questions of identity and sexuality. He also helps people facing panic, social anxiety, sleep trouble, and midlife or career crossroads. Sessions are offered in English and Melvin accepts international clients.
He encourages a respectful, down-to-earth working relationship where the client leads the pace and the focus. If someone wants a coach-like plan or deeper therapeutic work, he aims to match the approach to that need.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's concerns. The therapist creates a respectful space and helps people decide what matters most and what goals to try for. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at current thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full-session conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break in a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a shorter, more frequent contact fits someone’s routine. These options make it easier to schedule sessions across time zones and when life is busy, while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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