Melanie Van Orden
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Melanie Van Orden(She/Her/Hers)

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Master of Social Work, MSW•Licensed Social Worker, LSW
New York
Career counseling- Existential crisis & challenges-Love addiction-Religious trauma recovery-Sex addiction-Recovery from cults and high demand groups-

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Accepting in-person & online

Out-of-network with insurances

$235

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Professional statement

Hi, I’m Melanie Van Orden, and I’m a psychotherapist and professional life coach in New York City. I offer psychotherapy to clients that reside in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida. I offer life coaching, trauma recovery coaching, and psychedelic integration coaching to clients worldwide.

I specialize in working with people who are creative and sensitive, but often struggle with issues surrounding self-worth and meeting their own needs. These individuals frequently prioritize being liked, accepted, and approved of, which can hinder their ability to express their true selves and pursue their genuine desires. Additionally, they tend to be overly critical of themselves, burdened by feelings of shame, blame, and guilt.

The clients I work with are also often facing professional transitions from unfulfilling careers, navigating romantic relationship issues (such as finding new love or leaving unhealthy partnerships), or dealing with grief and loss. I also address deeply personal issues, including questioning the belief systems they were raised with or leaving high-demand groups or cults. I also have expertise in working with queer clients on LGBTQIA+ concerns, helping individuals affected by narcissistic abuse, and assisting my clients in their recovery from love addiction or sex addiction.

No matter what you are currently grappling with, my goal is to assist you to accelerate your healing and growth through a combination of trauma-informed, somatic or body-based practices, and for those that are interested and when it’s appropriate, psychedelic-assisted therapy.

If this resonates with you, I encourage you to reach out and schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation. Let's embark on this transformative journey together.

Message to clients

It takes great courage to reach out for help. I hope that you will reach out to see if we are a good fit to work together. I use an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and queer affirming lens in my work and center the lived experiences of my clients in our sessions together.

I work particularly well with women, creatives, entrepreneurs, and LGBTQIA+ people. My psychedelic work is complimented by my approach utilizing somatic, relational, mindfulness-based, trauma-informed and psychodynamic modalities. I also specialize in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and attachment-based therapy.

A particular area of focus in my practice is religious trauma recovery, recovery from leaving cults, and spiritual/existential exploration. This includes people experiencing faith transitions, grappling with existential anxiety, and folks leaving high demand religions, especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Mormonism. I also frequently work with people suffering from narcissistic abuse, although this doesn't always happen in a religious setting. I work with clients that settle along the full existential/spiritual spectrum, including atheists, agnostics, spiritual explorers, religious folks, and those who find the question of religion or spirituality irrelevant to them.

If you find yourself in any of the categories listed above, I hope that you’ll reach out for a complimentary 15 minute consultation today. I look forward to hearing from you.

Work and Education


Fordham University, MSW, 2007

Licensure

New York: 116379-01

Languages

English

Specialties

Career counseling - Support around personal and professional growth; clarifying career goals and implementing steps toward building a fulfilling career and meaningful work-life balance.

Existential crisis & challenges - Supportive exploration of meaning and purpose in one’s life; finding one’s path in the face of existential anxiety, dread, and feelings of meaninglessness.

Love addiction - Love addiction creates fixations and compulsions in love interests and can cause desperation or uneasiness when you are away from your lover or sexual partner. Love addicts often find themselves unable to stop seeing a specific person even though they know that seeing that person is destructive to them. It can also result in divorce, affairs, poor job performance, relationship conflict, poor concentration of everyday tasks, enmeshment, clinginess, and extreme emotional highs and lows.

Religious trauma recovery - Religious trauma occurs when a person's religious experience is stressful, degrading, dangerous, abusive, or damaging. Traumatic religious experiences may harm or threaten to harm someone's physical, emotional, mental, sexual, or spiritual health and safety.

Sex addiction - Sex addiction causes a person to lose control over their sexual thoughts and urges. They may compulsively change their day-to-day routine to be able to perform sexual acts and feel out of control when it comes to these decisions, even if they're aware of the negative consequences. They may also suffer from obsessive sexual thoughts, feel shame or depression regarding their sexuality, masturbate excessively, engage in risky sexual behavior, or struggle with compulsive infidelity.

Recovery from cults and high demand groups - Cult recovery can refer to the process of healing from the psychological and spiritual abuse that can occur in cults. Some characteristics of cults include: unreasonable fear of the outside world, a belief that former followers are always wrong in leaving, and a belief that the group or leader is always right.

General expertise

Treatment approaches

Clientele

  • Adults (24+)
  • Parents
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Young adults (18-24)

Locations & Hours

Specializing in ketamine-assisted therapy, narcissistic abuse recovery, psychedelic integration, and religious and cult trauma recovery.

Insurance

Melanie Van Orden is not in-network with any insurances.

Read about the benefits of seeing an out-of-network provider here.

Out-of-pocket fees

  • Individual sessions:$235 (50min)
  • Initial session:$235 (50min)
  • Group sessions:$80 (60min)
  • Life coaching:$235 (50min)

Additional session information

Out-of-network billing options

This provider can support you in getting reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network reimbursement. Here are the out-of-network billing options they provide:

  • Super billing
  • Courtesy billing
  • Direct billing
Payment options
  • Credit Card
  • Debit Card
  • PayPal
  • Venmo
  • Zelle
Session frequency

Frequency of sessions this provider offers to see clients once you are an established client.

  • Weekly
Therapist's note

For a small fee, out-of-network claims can be submitted directly to your insurance company via a platform called Thrizer. This avoids the hassle of submitting superbills and may also allow you to only pay your portion of the bill with Thrizer floating the rest of the fee until the insurance company pays their portion directly to the therapist.

Book a Free Initial Consultation

The practice will call you for a free 10min phone call to discuss your needs and ensure a match!

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