Counsellor profile
Melanie Duffin, BACP
Wellbeing counsellor - Stress and family concerns
Continue with MelanieAbout
- Stress and anxiety
- Family concerns
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
About Melanie
Melanie Duffin is a wellbeing counsellor with a degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and ten years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with adults experiencing stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and issues with self-esteem. Melanie also lists a range of related focus areas, such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family issues and caregiver stress.
She aims to help people talk through what feels stuck and to build clearer ways to cope day to day. Sessions are conversational and paced to the client. Melanie uses straightforward therapeutic tools rather than jargon, and she helps people identify small practical steps they can try between meetings.
Her approach draws on several established methods. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to notice difficult thoughts without getting overwhelmed by them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps spot thinking patterns that feed anxiety and stress and then try different responses.
Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred work guide how Melanie attends to relationships and personal history when that matters to current problems. Jungian ideas may be used to look at recurring themes and life meaning for some clients.
Sessions are offered in English and operate via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Melanie asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session so she can learn what they want to focus on.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Melanie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on noticing painful thoughts and learning to act on personal values despite them, which can help with anxiety, stress and motivation. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical experiments to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to attend to relationship patterns and to keep the sessions focused on the client’s experience. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. Melanie will work with the client to match methods to their goals and preferences rather than imposing a single model.
Confirm the current session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help where quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth are preferable. Registered or accredited professionals like Melanie aim to adapt sessions to what fits into everyday life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of family concerns does she help with?
She helps people dealing with strained relationships, blended family difficulties and communication problems within households.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her sessions are conversational and client-centred, using practical tools from approaches such as ACT and CBT to try different ways of coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working with issues including stress, trauma, grief and self-esteem.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds a degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the UK?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to try therapy with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule your first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.