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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.
What kinds of problems can I bring to therapy?
Melanie works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, parenting concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem and intimacy-related difficulties.
How does she approach therapy?
She uses client-centred conversations and may draw on cognitive behavioural and mindfulness techniques alongside psychodynamic ideas to suit what helps each person most.
What is her professional background?
She has nine years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and brings that clinical experience to her sessions.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
Melanie's listed credential is NCPS and she practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time; sessions are for people within the United Kingdom.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and the subscription handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

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Experience
9 years
Registered with
NCPS
Languages
English

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