Melanie Duffin
Practical, compassionate counselling for overwhelmed people
About Melanie
Melanie Duffin helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or difficult family situations. She is a counsellor who aims to make the first step feel manageable. Melanie offers calm, straightforward support and space to talk about what matters most to you.
Melanie works from a practical, person-focused stance. Sessions centre on what a person wants to change and small steps they can try between meetings. She listens for patterns in relationships and thought, then uses that information to guide gentle, achievable work together.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help with worry and low mood. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. Melanie also brings elements of Jungian thinking for people curious about meaning and life stories.
Melanie trained to a degree level in counselling and psychotherapy and has ten years of practice experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are conversational and paced to the person.
Melanie aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She supports people who want clearer boundaries, steadier mood, or help managing the impact of past hurts. To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and choose a suitable session time.
The process is intended to fit around other commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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How Melanie works
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Sessions & fees
How Melanie's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches practical skills for living according to personal values, which can help with anxiety, stress and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses short exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; this is useful for worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and can help people understand recurring difficulties in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will test methods to see what fits best. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels realistic and useful for day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter check-ins. Live chat or messaging suits people who prefer written reflection or need to fit therapy around a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while balancing work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
