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Melanie Lingley, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 9 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsSelf esteemDepression
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Melanie Lingley offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. She welcomes straightforward conversations about stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain and parenting concerns. Melanie's style is respectful and down-to-earth, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to cope.
She tailors sessions to each person's needs and priorities. Conversations focus on what matters right now and on small, manageable steps forward. Melanie draws on different ways of working to match someone's goals, using approaches that suit thinking patterns, daily habits and emotional processing.
Background and approach
Melanie has nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS as a listed credential and uses that background to inform her practice. Her experience covers trauma and abuse, grief, anger, intimacy-related concerns and issues around self-esteem and motivation.
She also works with people facing family problems, blended family challenges, caregiver stress and separation or divorce. Additional areas she supports include attachment difficulties, guilt and shame, isolation, midlife questions and obsessive or compulsive behaviours. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Melanie aims to create a space where people can talk through what is hard, try new ways of thinking, and practise small changes between sessions. She encourages people to be curious about patterns and to test approaches that fit their everyday life.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person brings. The counsellor offers empathy and acceptance while people lead the pace and topics, which is helpful for building trust and tackling relationship or self-esteem worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses structured exercises and practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits over time.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Melanie will discuss different approaches and choose methods together with the person based on their goals, preferences and life situation. This collaborative decision helps make sessions feel relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that suits, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, childcare or other commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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