About Melanie
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, or big life changes. Melanie builds a calm, affirming space where people can talk and be heard without judgment.
She works in a straightforward, person-focused way. Sessions often start with what matters most to the person now. Melanie uses practical tools to manage anxiety, mood swings, and upsetting thoughts.
Background and approach
She also helps people explore patterns that affect relationships and self-worth. Her work draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment approaches, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavior techniques, and client-centered listening. These tools are adapted to each person's pace and goals.
Melanie also uses skills from dialectical behavior work when emotion regulation or impulsive behaviors are a concern. Melanie often supports people dealing with trauma, family-of-origin issues, divorce or separation, and parenting stress. She also helps with intimacy concerns, body image, codependency, and the strain that comes with caregiving or compassion fatigue.
People meet her for both short-term problem solving and longer-term self-exploration. Sessions can include skill practice, values clarification, and space to make sense of painful experiences. The aim is clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day living.
How Melanie’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then act on what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through practical exercises, which is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and adjust methods over time. Sessions may mix techniques so the plan fits daily life and immediate needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief check-ins into a busy day. These options help make therapy accessible across schedules and locations for people in New York who prefer remote care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English