About Dean
Dean Melrose is a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of experience. He practices in New Hampshire and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. He emphasizes clear, practical steps and a straightforward style that many people find easier to follow in everyday life.
Dean uses approaches that focus on what people want to change and how to get there. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep problems going and then test small, doable strategies to change them.
Background and approach
He encourages honest conversation and focuses on skills people can use between sessions. People come to him for help with life transitions, career strain, grief, and struggles around self-esteem or purpose. He also supports those dealing with chronic pain, illness, or issues that can follow first responders and other high-stress jobs.
His work includes concerns tied to gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, and compassion fatigue. His way of working blends practical problem solving with direct, empathic listening. He asks clear questions, sets simple goals, and checks progress so people can see what’s changing.
Sessions are collaborative rather than prescriptive. Dean holds a Master of Arts and lists LMHC and LCMHC among his credentials. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Online approaches that focus on change and collaboration
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s experience guides the work. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and to make sense of emotions before taking action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and build new habits, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and practical needs, then try methods that fit those priorities. Progress is reviewed together so methods can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send quick updates or have more frequent, brief contacts without scheduling a full session.
These formats aim to increase flexibility and access so people can work on stress, grief, addiction, or chronic illness concerns in ways that match their schedules and comfort with technology.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English