Melanie Barefield, LPC, LMFT

Melanie Barefield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Georgia with eight years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, anger, relationship strain, grief, and trauma related concerns. Melanie also helps people coping with parenting challenges, ADHD, depression, and major life changes.

Her background includes a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and work across residential treatment centers, in-home counseling, church-based programs, and hospital settings. That range of settings means she has experience supporting people through crisis and longer-term concerns. She has used Trauma-Focused approaches often when trauma history is central to a client’s difficulties.

Melanie uses an approach that begins with listening to what a person or family wants to change. She works collaboratively to set goals and then applies practical methods to reach them. Techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are used to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors.

For relationship concerns she brings in family systems ideas and couple work tools such as Prepare-Enrich to help partners examine patterns and improve communication. When trauma is present she incorporates Trauma-Focused strategies alongside attachment-informed thinking to reduce the impact of past events on current functioning.

Sessions focus on clear goals and steps people can try between meetings. Melanie helps clients identify small, practical changes for managing anger, improving communication, and reducing stress. The process is collaborative and oriented toward day-to-day improvements.

How Melanie integrates therapeutic approaches for remote work