Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
How Melanie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Melanie
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of practice in New York. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, addiction issues, anger, and other life changes. Melanie creates a direct and supportive space where people can talk through hard feelings and make practical shifts.
She uses clear, plain language in sessions. Therapy often starts with immediate coping skills for overwhelm and anger, then moves to longer-term work on patterns that keep problems cycling.
Background and approach
Melanie draws on several well-known therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. Clients commonly bring relationship stress, family problems, grief, trauma, or struggles with identity and self-esteem. She also works with people facing career pressure, parenting strain, bipolar mood challenges, and co-occurring substance or eating concerns.
Concerns like abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, and dissociation are part of her caseload. Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and real-life experiments people can try between meetings.
Melanie helps people set manageable goals and track small changes over time. Melanie offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions are delivered in English and are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules an appointment based on therapist availability.
What Melanie works with
Everything Melanie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Melanie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melanie lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online work and real-life change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It is useful for persistent anxiety, stress, and issues like anger where avoidance has become a habit. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day challenges that benefit from step-by-step change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Melanie works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals and situation. Early sessions often try practical strategies, and the plan is adjusted based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy into a busy life easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and people who prefer written communication. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear goals and useful tools.
Questions people ask about Melanie
What kinds of problems does she address?
Melanie works with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, grief, trauma, relationship and family problems, and many identity and mood concerns such as bipolar and depression.
What is her approach in sessions?
She blends practical skill teaching with deeper exploration. Sessions include coping techniques, behavior changes, and conversation about patterns that keep problems repeating.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 15 years of clinical experience working with people on a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
Melanie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, holding a New York LMHC and practicing from New York.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a session based on the therapist's availability.