About Melanie
Melanie Roserie is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people through stressful and painful life moments. She focuses on depression, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, and family-related concerns. Melanie aims to help people build resilience and find steady ground again.
Her style centers on understanding each person’s experience and practical problem solving. She helps people untangle communication problems, work through divorce or separation grief, and navigate blended family challenges.
How Melanie works
She also addresses fatherhood issues, fertility concerns, and questions about life purpose. Melanie has extensive experience with trauma recovery, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress. She also has a long history supporting first responders, veterans, and military personnel who face the overlap of work stress and personal challenges.
Her clinical work includes attention to co-morbid mood disorders and the ways guilt and shame affect healing. In sessions she focuses on rebuilding self-compassion and practical steps toward change. She meets people where they are and adapts to their needs.
The emphasis is on clear goals and steady progress. Melanie provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed care that respects identities and life stories. She invites people to explore purpose, values, and healthier patterns while receiving consistent support along the way.
What Melanie works with
The areas below are the ones Melanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW-C, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Melanie Brings Evidence-Based Care to Online Sessions
Two evidence-based therapeutic techniques she uses include trauma-focused work and approaches that target mood and anxiety symptoms. Trauma-focused work helps people process painful events and reduce their day-to-day impact, while mood- and anxiety-focused techniques help identify unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for stress and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust strategies over time based on what is helpful.
Confirm the available session options before booking so you know which formats are offered at the time. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten commute time, and allow for regular check-ins between other responsibilities. It can also make some appointments simpler by removing the need to travel or rearrange a full day, helping therapy feel more manageable alongside work and family commitments.
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