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Online therapist

Melandi Murrell

Family-centered care with practical tools

Credentials
LPC, LCMHC
Experience
8 years
Licensed in
South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Melandi

Melandi Murrell is a licensed counselor with eight years of professional experience. She practices in Florida and holds LPC and LCMHC credentials. Melandi focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, parenting, and family concerns.

She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to help people make practical changes that ease daily life. Her work often centers on relationships and family dynamics. She helps people talk through communication problems, attachment concerns, grief, and life transitions.

Background and approach

She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, anger, career questions, and self-esteem challenges. Melandi uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused work. She draws on these methods to build simple skills, shift unhelpful thoughts, and set small goals that add up.

Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused on what the person wants to change. She has experience with young adults, adolescents, and adults facing mood disorders, ADHD, and seasonal changes in mood. Melandi also addresses workplace stress, compassion fatigue, and isolation or loneliness.

Her approach aims to be practical and respectful of each person’s situation. Parents looking for support around family issues or parenting stress can expect concrete strategies and calm guidance. She individualizes plans so therapy fits each family’s needs.

The tone in sessions is empathetic, down-to-earth, and action oriented.

How Melandi Uses Practical Approaches Online

Melandi draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people manage thoughts, feelings, and reactions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying concrete behavioral experiments to change how things feel. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help with stress or sleep problems.

She treats the choice of approach as a team decision. During early sessions she will talk with clients about goals, comfortable techniques, and what feels useful. Together the therapist and client adjust methods if something isn’t working, mixing tools from different approaches when needed.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. These formats let people connect from home, fit therapy into busy schedules, and maintain continuity through life changes. The focus remains on practical strategies, steady progress, and making therapy fit the client’s daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, family problems, relationship issues, grief, and related struggles.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on practical steps, respectful listening, and setting small goals.
What is her background and clinical experience?
She has eight years of experience working in mental health and social work settings with adolescents and adults on mood, anxiety, and family concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials with license details SC LPC 7945 and NC LCMHC 20198, and she practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to get started?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
8 years
Licensed
South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida
Languages
English

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