- Years in practice
- 8
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Melanie
Melanie Kennedy is a counsellor with eight years of practice based in the United Kingdom. She aims to make the first step easier for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. Parents looking for help with parenting-related strain will find a calm, practical approach.
She works in a respectful, non-judgemental way and adapts sessions to each person. Her day-to-day work blends talking therapies that focus on thoughts, feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
Melanie uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and develop simple, concrete coping strategies. She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current difficulties. Sessions are collaborative.
The counsellor helps clients set realistic goals and tries different ways of working until something fits. Practical tools, reflective conversation and short exercises between sessions are common parts of the plan. Her caseload includes a wide range of concerns such as depression, grief, addiction and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people with ADHD, body image and career stress. Parenting is one of the areas she mentions when people are juggling child-related pressures and life demands. Melanie holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP.
She offers appointments by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. Sessions are available to people in the UK and internationally. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What Melanie works with
Everything Melanie lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melanie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melanie lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Melanie's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and when life feels out of step with what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behaviour, then testing alternatives with practical exercises. CBT often helps with low mood, sleeping problems and worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and emotional needs and can help with intimacy and communication difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie treats this as a collaborative process and discusses different methods with each person. Together they decide what fits the issues, goals and personal preferences, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and messaging works for ongoing support between meetings. These options help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around parenting, work and travel.
Questions people ask about Melanie
What problems can I bring to sessions?
Common issues include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions and parenting-related pressures. Melanie also works with concerns such as intimacy issues, ADHD and career stress.
How would you describe the counselling style?
The style is collaborative and practical. Sessions mix reflective conversation with exercises and strategies to try between meetings.
What is the counsellor's background?
Melanie has eight years of professional experience supporting people with a wide range of emotional and relationship difficulties.
Where is the counsellor based and what qualification is held?
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP as her recorded credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Appointments can take place by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging according to preference.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with this counsellor?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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