- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
About Melanie
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 15 years of practice supporting people through emotional challenges. She focuses on creating an affirming space where clients can name what feels hard and build useful ways to cope. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, LGBTQ experiences, and parenting questions.
Melanie favors practical, short-term skills when those are helpful, and she also works on deeper patterns that keep problems recurring.
Background and approach
Sessions usually include clear tools for managing strong emotions and step-by-step plans to try between meetings. She listens for each person's priorities and adjusts the work to match their pace and goals. Her background covers mood disorders, trauma and attachment issues, and challenges that come from family of origin or relationship strain.
She also supports people dealing with grief, career stress, body image, and mixed diagnoses where more than one concern shows up. Clients who want to address compulsive behaviors or substance use find focused strategies here. Melanie uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, along with attachment-based and client-centered work.
That lets her combine practical behavior change with attention to values and relationships. She brings a calm, collaborative style to sessions. People who reach out can expect direct communication about goals, concrete homework when useful, and a steady focus on what matters most to them.
She aims to help parents and individuals clarify priorities and reduce the day-to-day strain of juggling responsibilities.
What Melanie works with
Everything Melanie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Melanie helps people with.
- 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 sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and building actions that align with those values while accepting difficult feelings. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches concrete techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and problematic habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people create different ways of relating when those patterns cause pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when video feels like too much or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, and staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules.
Questions people ask about Melanie
What kinds of concerns does Melanie address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, mood concerns, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and related areas such as body image and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Sessions combine practical skill-building with talk therapy. She balances short-term strategies like behavioral tools with deeper exploration of values and attachment patterns.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of clinical experience supporting people through mood disorders, trauma, addiction-related struggles, and life transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, practicing in New York.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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