Melanie Roum, LCSW

Melanie Roum is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and addictions. She brings 15 years of experience to her work and centers sessions on the strengths each person already has. Melanie encourages clients to take the first steps toward change and offers steady support along the way.

Her approach blends practical skills with values-based work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to clarify what matters most and to take steps toward those values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy contributes tools for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.

Melanie also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to build self-awareness and momentum for change. She helps people facing grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, and issues tied to family of origin. She works with concerns such as codependency, communication problems, chronic illness, and substance use.

Sessions are grounded and straightforward. Melanie listens, offers practical strategies, and helps people try new ways of coping. She respects each person’s beliefs and can include spiritual resources if a client finds that helpful.

Melanie practices in Louisiana and holds an LCSW credential. She conducts therapy in English and does not take international clients. Those interested should confirm current session options before scheduling.

How Melanie's Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help people who are stuck after loss, life change, or patterns of avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior cycles and teaches concrete skills to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing behaviors that cause harm. These approaches teach practical tools that translate well to conversations and exercises done online.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. That might mean focusing first on skills for emotional regulation, or on values-driven action, and adjusting as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full session isn't needed. Licensed professionals often adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices so they can be used between meetings, which helps people apply what they learn in everyday life.