As your therapist, I provide a safe, compassionate space where we can explore challenges, build insight, and work toward meaningful, sustainable change at a pace that feels right for you.
Therapy Rooted in Safety and Trust
A Space for Healing and Lasting Change
Therapy is a space to slow down, understand patterns, and develop new ways of responding to life’s challenges. I work with individuals who feel stuck in cycles of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or relational stress and are ready for change that feels realistic and sustainable. My approach blends clinical expertise with compassion, helping clients move from coping to deeper healing.
About Me
Melanie Lugo
LCSW, CASAC-2
Services
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy provides a confidential, supportive space to explore personal challenges, build insight, and develop effective coping strategies. Sessions are tailored to your unique needs and may focus on concerns such as trauma, anxiety, mood symptoms, relationship patterns, emotional regulation, and life transitions. Treatment is trauma-informed and collaborative, drawing from evidence-based approaches—including EMDR when appropriate—to support healing, self-trust, and meaningful, lasting change.
Group Therapy
Group therapy offers a supportive environment where individuals can gain insight, reduce isolation, and practice new skills alongside others with shared experiences. Groups are structured, trauma-informed, and facilitated with an emphasis on safety, respect, and mutual support. Current groups offered: Codependency Group – focused on boundaries, self-worth, attachment patterns, and shifting from role-based identity to values-based living. Beyond Borderline Group – designed to support emotional regulation, relational stability, and recovery beyond diagnosis, with a focus on skills, insight, and self-trust.
Clinical Supervision
I provide clinical supervision for therapists pursuing New York State licensure, in accordance with NYSED requirements. Supervision is structured, trauma-informed, and focused on developing clinical competence, ethical decision-making, and professional identity Supervision may include: Case conceptualization and treatment planning Ethical standards and NYS scope of practice Managing countertransference, burnout, and boundaries Preparation for independent clinical practice Supervision hours are available for clinicians seeking licensure as an LCSW in New York State.
Therapeutic Approaches Informed By
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – a trauma-focused, evidence-based approach that helps process distressing experiences and reduce emotional reactivity.
- Trauma-Informed Therapy – an approach that prioritizes safety, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.
- Attachment-Based Therapy – focuses on understanding relational patterns shaped by early experiences and improving connection and self-trust.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT-Informed) – skills-based approach focused on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness.
- Psychodynamic Therapy – explores how past experiences influence present thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions – supports awareness, grounding, and nervous system regulation.
- Strengths-Based Therapy – emphasizes resilience, capabilities, and personal resources.
- Psychoeducation – provides education about symptoms, trauma responses, and coping strategies to support insight and empowerment.
Finances
Contact
- Liverpool, NY, USA
Virtual Therapy Available Licensed in New York, Provide telehealth therapy in New York, South Carolina and Florida