Melanie Dente

Melanie Dente is a licensed counselor practicing in Ohio. She is an LPCC and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she draws on six years of clinical experience. Melanie helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem.

She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. Melanie encourages clients to build a personal toolbox of coping strategies. She also helps people notice and test thoughts that may cause distress, and to practice ways of managing intense emotions.

Melanie has a long history of work with people who have experienced trauma. She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior skills to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. She also works with people facing grief, anger, relationship stress, workplace issues, and the effects of natural or human-caused disasters.

In sessions she asks clients to identify their supporters and to avoid unsafe behaviors. She sets clear expectations about effort and change, and she challenges clients to try new skills. At the same time she marks progress and helps people recognize small wins along the way.

To begin, Melanie asks people to pick the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Scheduling is then arranged according to the therapist's availability and the site's process.

How Trauma-Focused and Skills-Based Approaches Work Online

Melanie uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process distressing events and reduce ongoing symptoms. This approach focuses on slowing down, working through upsetting memories safely, and developing ways to cope with reminders and triggers.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds practical emotion-regulation and interpersonal skills to help manage intense feelings and improve communication.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, needs, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Together they adjust the plan based on what is helping and what feels doable.

The biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can work therapy into a lunch break or between commitments. Many therapists adapt exercises, guided breathing, and homework tasks to work well in virtual sessions, so the same practical skills training is available even when meeting remotely.