Melanie SharpLMSW

Melanie Sharp is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who focuses on helping people navigate stressful life moments. She works with adults facing issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, sleep problems, and questions about intimacy and parenting. Melanie writes simply and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person.

Her style is warm, interactive, and goal-focused. Sessions emphasize respectful dialogue and practical steps you can try between meetings. Melanie draws on approaches that help people notice thinking patterns, explore deeper feelings, and find motivation to change.

Over 21 years in practice, she has supported people through grief, trauma and abuse, career shifts, ADHD struggles, and the strains that come with caregiving or aging. She also assists clients dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, relationship conflict, and substance use challenges. Her experience includes work across many stages of life.

Melanie combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic ideas, along with Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness practices when useful. That mix allows her to tailor sessions to practical goals and personal history. She invites clients to set the pace and focus.

She is based in Michigan and offers services in English. If you want to explore changes in pregnancy, childbirth, or parenting roles, Melanie can help people talk through fears, plan coping strategies, and work toward clearer goals.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports them in finding their own solutions to things like parenting stress or changes around pregnancy and childbirth.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change habits that get in the way of daily life.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and calm the mind. These practices can be helpful for stress, grief, and coping with intense emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That process can change over time as priorities shift.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Online options can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce time spent traveling. Therapists can adapt exercises and homework for remote sessions so progress continues between meetings.