About Melanie
Melanie Dente helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She supports those struggling with self-esteem, grief, anger, workplace strain, and major life changes. Melanie also addresses mood disorders, panic, phobias, and the aftereffects of abuse and disaster.
Melanie uses clear, practical steps in sessions. She encourages people to build a toolbox of skills they can use between meetings. She asks clients to identify supportive people in their lives and to reduce risky behaviors.
Background and approach
Progress is framed as steady work with small wins to celebrate. Melanie practices as an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor - LPCC - and holds a Washington license as a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC. She brings six years of clinical experience working with survivors of trauma and people facing intense stress.
Her background centers on teaching emotion regulation, improving communication, and testing unhelpful thoughts. In therapy she mixes active problem solving with emotion-focused practice. Sessions include skill teaching, real-time practice, and gentle challenges to try new ways of relating and coping.
Melanie emphasizes simple exercises that fit into everyday life. She invites clients to set clear goals and to track progress. Melanie offers encouragement and praise for effort as well as direct feedback when needed.
Her work aims to help people feel more capable and to reduce the symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
How Melanie’s methods fit online therapy
Melanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma, plus Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills work. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts that cause distress and on planning practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms. EMDR is an approach used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional impact. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills that help in tense moments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Melanie will work with each client to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques if something isn’t helpful, so clients help shape their own plan.
Online therapy lets people access these methods through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer skill-building sessions and face-to-face coaching. Phone work can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coping coaching, and follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep up with practice outside sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Washington
- Languages
- English