About Melinda
Melinda Perry is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) living in Colorado with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. She also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, addiction, trauma, and LGBT-related issues.
Her style is respectful, direct, and compassionate. Melinda uses a client-centered stance that begins with listening. She pays attention to the person in front of her and tailors conversations to meet that person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on building small, usable skills that can make daily life easier. She helps people try new ways of coping and communication rather than relying on one-size-fits-all solutions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs some of her work, especially when emotions drive repeated relationship patterns.
She helps people name feelings, understand how those feelings shape responses, and practice different ways to connect or set boundaries. That approach is useful for relationship pain, attachment hurts, and recurring conflicts. Over three decades Melinda has worked across many situations, including grief, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, and blended family issues.
She pays attention to family of origin patterns, forgiveness work, and problems with control or codependency. Her experience includes support for people managing ADHD, autism-related concerns, and fertility-related stress. If someone is ready to begin, Melinda asks a few questions to match goals and then builds a plan together.
She emphasizes respect for each person’s life story and the right to make choices about care.
Client-centered and emotionally-focused care online
Melinda uses client-centered therapy to guide much of her work. That approach emphasizes listening and responding to each person’s experience. Conversations focus on what matters to the individual and on practical steps they want to try. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is another thread in her practice. EFT helps people name and sit with emotions that keep creating the same problems. It is often used for relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and when strong feelings block change. Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what actually helps. Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller exchange helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief reflections, and ongoing connection between sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or other schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English