About Melodie
Melodie Heupel-Carney is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those struggling with motivation, self-esteem, addictions, and major life changes.
Melodie believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can name what matters and take practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on skills they can use between meetings. Her approach blends practical, evidence-informed methods with a warm, client-centered stance. Melodie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness methods to help people build values-based goals and present-moment skills. She has substantial experience helping people process trauma and cope with loss, abandonment, or relationship struggles. Melodie also addresses concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, codependency, and substance use challenges.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and services are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches to change and how online therapy helps
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters to them and take small, steady steps toward those values. It uses acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings alongside committed action to build a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship where the person's own goals guide the work.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That means checking in about what is or isn't helpful and adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit a quick check-in or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent during busy periods or when travel is difficult.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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