Melanie Farnworth
Compassionate, practical counselling support
About Melanie
Melanie Farnworth offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, low mood, anxiety and life changes. She focuses on building a trusting space where someone can talk through difficult feelings and work out manageable steps forward. Melanie is named as a BACP member, and she brings four years of experience to her work in the United Kingdom.
Her approach is conversational and down-to-earth. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to help people feel heard and understood, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to break down unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative so clients leave with clear ideas to try between meetings. Melanie has experience offering counselling in a cancer charity, supporting people facing a diagnosis and their family members. She also works with concerns such as grief and bereavement, pet loss, caregiver stress, chronic illness and end-of-life matters.
Practical issues like communication problems, divorce and separation, and commitment worries are part of her caseload too. She helps people coping with ADHD, self-esteem and confidence struggles, social anxiety, isolation and midlife transitions. Melanie also supports people dealing with guilt, shame and women’s issues as they work towards emotional recovery.
Sessions are available in English and Melanie accepts international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits best. Fees vary with location and subscription details, which can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful, non-judgemental space. The aim is to help a person feel understood so they can explore feelings and find their own direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps people spot patterns and try small, practical experiments to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie collaborates with each person to decide what feels most useful. She will adapt methods based on a person’s goals, preferences and the issues they bring to sessions.
Online therapy can be very flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or health needs, and they help people keep continuity when travel or other commitments get in the way.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
