Melanie Kennedy
Calm, practical support for emotional and relationship struggles
About Melanie
Melanie Kennedy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to make the first steps into therapy easier to take. She offers calm, respectful support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and LGBT-related issues. Melanie works in a straightforward way and tailors conversations to each person’s situation.
She uses a mix of well-established approaches to help people untangle difficult patterns and find small, useful changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on practical ways to handle feelings and difficult moments. Melanie draws on eight years of clinical experience and holds BACP registration, which she cites as her professional credential. Her background includes helping people manage grief, trauma and abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviours, and challenges linked to chronic illness or caregiving.
She also supports clients with work-related stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and eating issues, ADHD, and intimacy issues related to BDSM, kink and alternative sex culture. Melanie adapts her approach to suit each person’s pace and preferences.
She combines client-centred conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioural and acceptance-oriented methods. Emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas also inform her work when relationships and past bonds are central to a problem. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The therapist emphasises collaboration and clear steps so people can see progress as they work together.
What Melanie works with
How Melanie works
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Sessions & fees
How Melanie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing small changes to improve mood and functioning; it is often used for stress, anxiety, sleeping and eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop different ways of relating when past bonds cause pain.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life and location while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
