Melanie Gerber, LMHC
New York · 15 years in practice
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in New York.
License and registration
- LMHC, New York
- 006584 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1457630956 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Melanie
Melanie Gerber is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in New York. She centers her work on helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Melanie aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk honestly about what is hard right now.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress and anxiety, mood shifts, addiction concerns, and relationship strain. Melanie also supports people dealing with grief, career pressure, parenting challenges, and issues around intimacy or identity.
Background and approach
She works with clients on specific concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, and trauma-related symptoms in ways that recognize each person’s history. Her style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions often involve clarifying what matters most to the client, learning practical coping skills, and trying small experiments to see what helps.
Melanie uses a mix of approaches to match the situation, including existential questions about meaning, behavioral strategies, and attention to how attachment shapes relationships. Clients can expect a collaborative pace. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Melanie pays attention to both immediate relief and longer-term change so people build skills they can rely on outside sessions. Based in New York, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melanie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melanie names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Melanie uses Existential Therapy to help clients examine meaning, values, and choices when life feels uncertain. This approach is useful for people facing big transitions, identity questions, or a sense of emptiness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, features in her work as a way to teach flexible skills for handling difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward meaningful goals.Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her toolkit, focusing on how early and current relationships shape patterns in intimate and family interactions. This helps clients who notice repeating relationship struggles or fear of abandonment work toward healthier ways of relating. She describes approach selection as a joint process - the therapist and client explore what feels most helpful and adapt methods to fit the client’s needs and goals.
Online sessions make these approaches accessible in multiple formats. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works well for ongoing reflections between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter or longer check-ins, and different communication preferences while maintaining the same therapeutic focus.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Melanie address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and related issues such as grief, anger, and intimacy challenges.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is person-centered and collaborative, combining meaning-focused conversations with practical skills and experiments to improve day-to-day functioning.
What is her professional background?
Melanie has 15 years of clinical experience helping people navigate life transitions, relationship struggles, mood disorders, and identity concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a New York licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does the subscription and cost work?
Sessions use a subscription model that varies with location and therapist availability and can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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