About Melinda
Melinda Best is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She helps people who are struggling with addictions, relationship and family tensions, low self-esteem, and those seeking practical coaching for work or life decisions. She works in a straightforward way and treats each person as the expert in their own story.
Her approach combines talk-based methods with body-aware work, including somatic therapy to notice how stress shows up physically.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred principles to follow each person’s pace and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behaviour changes. Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports readiness for change. Melinda has supported people dealing with chronic pain, caregiving stress, midlife transitions and the emotions that follow infidelity or betrayal.
She also helps those coping with guilt, shame, isolation and questions about life purpose. Her work often focuses on practical steps rather than complicated theory. Sessions can include short-term coaching goals or longer work on underlying issues.
Melinda aims for clear, manageable steps so progress can be noticed between sessions. She encourages honest conversation and gradual, sustainable change. Her practice is conducted in English and based in the United Kingdom.
People choosing to work with her complete a simple matching process before scheduling, and the session format can be adapted to individual needs.
How Melinda’s approaches work online
Somatic therapy focuses on noticing sensations in the body and how stress or trauma shows up physically. Online somatic work can include guided attention to breath, posture and simple grounding movements to help people feel steadier between sessions.Client-centred therapy means the counsellor follows the persons lead and offers empathic listening. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they decide what changes matter most to them.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is practical and task-oriented. It helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tries small experiments or behaviour changes to test new ways of coping, which works well for issues like low mood, anxiety and relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques and adjust course based on what feels most useful. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively, guided by the persons needs and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. This range helps people fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility limits and lets them use the format that feels most comfortable for sharing and practising new skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English