- Client-centered approach
- Cognitive strategies
- Career and life focus
About Melvin
Melvin DuBard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, career crossroads, and difficult life changes. He uses a straightforward, respectful approach and aims to make conversations feel calm and practical. He works with clients who want to understand their thoughts and make steady changes in daily life.
Melvin draws on 15 years of experience in counseling and earlier work as an educator. He holds an Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from Winthrop University. He also holds licensure as an LPC in South Carolina and Oregon.
In sessions he emphasizes a client-centered style. That means conversations focus on each person’s priorities and values. He combines that with solution-focused steps and cognitive-behavioral strategies to identify thinking patterns that get in the way of goals. The aim is to build practical skills clients can use after therapy ends.
He also brings elements of Jungian thinking and motivational interviewing when those perspectives fit a person’s needs. This can help with exploring life purpose, career decisions, and identity questions. Melvin works with people facing relationship or family strains, grief, trauma, and workplace stress.
He offers a respectful space where people can talk through anger, sleep problems, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. If someone prefers a collaborative plan and clear steps to try between sessions, his style supports that kind of work.
Melvin draws on 15 years of experience in counseling and earlier work as an educator. He holds an Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from Winthrop University. He also holds licensure as an LPC in South Carolina and Oregon.
In sessions he emphasizes a client-centered style. That means conversations focus on each person’s priorities and values. He combines that with solution-focused steps and cognitive-behavioral strategies to identify thinking patterns that get in the way of goals. The aim is to build practical skills clients can use after therapy ends.
He also brings elements of Jungian thinking and motivational interviewing when those perspectives fit a person’s needs. This can help with exploring life purpose, career decisions, and identity questions. Melvin works with people facing relationship or family strains, grief, trauma, and workplace stress.
He offers a respectful space where people can talk through anger, sleep problems, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue. If someone prefers a collaborative plan and clear steps to try between sessions, his style supports that kind of work.
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