Meet Melanie Kaplan, a Board Certified Life Coach and Mental Health Counselor (LP) who brings mental health insight, empathy, and practical forward-focused coaching support into every conversation.
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Board Certified Life Coach
Mental Health Counselor (LP)
Personal / Life Coaching
In Person & Virtual
I am a Nationally Board Certified Life Coach with a specialty designation in Personal/Life Coaching from the CCE (Center for Credentialing in Education), an affiliate of NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors). I am a NY Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LP). My values-based coaching/counseling is grounded in professional training, ethical standards, and mental health insight into behavior, motivation and change.
Dual training in coaching and counseling affords me the awareness to determine whether a client’s presenting concerns are outside the scope of coaching where therapy may be more indicated. As a counselor, I am attuned to what lies beneath motivation, resistance, avoidance, fear, uncertainty, shame, or self sabotage- all of which the coaching process recognizes as barriers to change. I can detect subtle emotional cues of grief, trauma response, and even people-pleasing tendencies that can interfere with forward momentum. My coaching and counseling approaches are grounded in Person-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Person Centered Therapy, & Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
My professional history began in education as a teacher who transitioned into educational leadership- working with students from diverse backgrounds, including those with special needs, deepening my appreciation of individual struggles. In realizing my career highlights were using a social-emotional approach with staff and students to listen with empathy, I followed that shift into a career that allowed me to serve as a thinking partner on a personal level, to help others figure out ways their lives can be improved.
