Dr. Melanie Love
Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York State and Florida
Virtual therapy for adults who are ready to finally feel good enough.
We'll break the cycle of being your own toughest critic and feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unfulfilled.
It's time to discover your true self and build relationships where you can really be yourself.
You can have a life of connection and balance. Reach out today to get started.
Does This Sound Like You?
Everyone sees you as successful and on-top-of-it. Inside, you’re terrified of failing, disappointing people, or being seen as not good enough. It's impossible to relax. You take on more and more but struggle to feel accomplished or fulfilled. You may not even know what you actually want.
From a young age, you’ve pushed down your needs and hidden your true self in order to take care of others. You’ve always been the strong one. But you’ve become overwhelmed and exhausted. It’s hard to know how you feel and even harder to trust that someone will care. You feel alone even around loved ones.
In therapy, I will help you understand your true experience. We'll get to the root of patterns that impact your self-esteem and intimacy with others. We'll create new roadmaps for acceptance and connection. You'll learn how to communicate your feelings, needs, limits, and goals, leading to more enriching relationships in all parts of your life.
With me, you’ll feel seen and valued exactly as you are and discover how to share your genuine self with others.
I'm glad you're here.
Here's how therapy with me will help:
As co-author of “Secrets and Lies In Therapy” (APA, 2019), I have expertise in helping you feel comfortable talking about what matters, even if that's been tough before. If you’ve felt misunderstood and criticized when you've tried to share these parts of yourself, you will feel relief with me. When we shine a compassionate light on your experiences, your critical voice will quiet down and it will feel easier to be authentic.
Together, we'll develop a deeper understanding of what is at the root of unhappiness and distress. I'll help you identify patterns in relationships or ways of coping that feel stuck or no longer serve you. We'll transform insight into creating new, more fulfilling roadmaps for well-being. Your experience feeling deeply seen by me will translate into more comfort taking risks in relationships outside of therapy.
We'll collaborate to design practical experiments that help you build confidence in how you connect with others and how you treat yourself. I can also help you craft a customized toolbox to deal with life’s stressors, drawing from my experience with mindfulness, behavioral, and body-based approaches.
You’ve been figuring it out alone long enough. I look forward to connecting with you.
Our sessions will help you gain self-acceptance, feel empowered to express yourself more fully, and experience greater ease finally being your true self in relationships.
Like any relationship, therapy works best when it is the right fit.
To help you feel confident about starting the process, I offer a free 15 minute phone or Zoom consultation. We'll discuss your needs and goals and I'll answer any questions you have.
I know it takes strength to reach out, so I'll respond within a day when you contact me.