Melanie Mullins, LMHC, LPC

Melanie Mullins is a licensed mental health counselor with eight years of clinical experience. She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in New York. Melanie aims to provide a calm space where people can speak honestly and feel heard.

She emphasizes a collaborative relationship as the basis for change. Melanie uses practical tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people sort through problems. She focuses on finding areas a person can control and then builds small, manageable strategies from there.

Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, mood challenges, and difficulties with sleep and eating. Melanie also supports people dealing with career stress, addiction, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to issues around communication, commitment, and control that often make day-to-day life harder.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Melanie blends client-centered listening with skills-based exercises so people leave with something to try. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and dialectical skills when emotional regulation or values work is helpful.

Melanie offers online options like video, phone, live chat, and text messaging so therapy can fit into busy schedules. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How Melanie’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Melanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce distress. CBT focuses on concrete skills you can practice between sessions and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and make choices that match those values, even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Client-Centered Therapy is part of her work too, which means she listens without judgment and follows the person’s priorities during sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Melanie will work together with each person to identify which methods fit their needs and goals, and she adapts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short updates or times when scheduling is tight. These options help therapy fit around work, family, and other commitments.