Melanie Lee, LCSW
Melanie N. Lee is the owner of You Can Therapeutic Services. She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with her Masters Degree in Social Work in 2008 and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of California in 2012. She carries a valid Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC) to work with students in schools, utilizing the PPSC as a school based clinician in Long Beach schools for five years.
Currently, depression, anxiety, and abortion recovery are Melanie’s areas of interest. However, she also has over eleven years experience working with other disruptive disorders, substance use in middle school aged children, and working with families to improve functioning in the home.
Melanie has supervisory experience in the clinical setting and is active in the community providing counseling services, speaking at events, trainings, hosting workshops, and consulting at pregnancy centers to improve their interactions with the post-abortive population.
Melanie currently holds a Masters of Divinity with an emphasis in Biblical Studies from Azusa Pacific Seminary at APU and currently serves with the youth in her local ministry. The understanding gained from this program has given Melanie the ability to integrate faith and mental health to assist in the overall healing of each individual.
Currently, depression, anxiety, and abortion recovery are Melanie’s areas of interest. However, she also has over eleven years experience working with other disruptive disorders, substance use in middle school aged children, and working with families to improve functioning in the home.
Melanie has supervisory experience in the clinical setting and is active in the community providing counseling services, speaking at events, trainings, hosting workshops, and consulting at pregnancy centers to improve their interactions with the post-abortive population.
Melanie currently holds a Masters of Divinity with an emphasis in Biblical Studies from Azusa Pacific Seminary at APU and currently serves with the youth in her local ministry. The understanding gained from this program has given Melanie the ability to integrate faith and mental health to assist in the overall healing of each individual.
A little more if you're interested!
As stated above, I'm Melanie and I'm excited to meet you!
Going to therapy is not always the easiest task for many so I do my best to make the transition easy. I'm all about building relationships, a little bit of humor, and making sure that you feel heard even in the darkest times. I always say, finding a therapist is like finding a good pair of jeans on sale. Once you're in there and comfortable, you can get to work.
In 2016 I wrote the book, Thirty-One Reasons to Praise: Because life gets rough sometimes a 31-day devotion and journal designed to help people through their rough seasons with peace and joy by bringing them back to the promises of God.
I wrote the book because I needed it. I needed to find solid biblical reasons to praise, find joy, and maintain peace in and after painful seasons in my life.
That’s when I realized who I was called to!
I am called to the person who doesn’t have a safe space to share their concerns, shame, fears, difficulties, anger, and missteps. The one who is secretly dealing with low self-esteem, spiritual doubt and confusion, grief and loss, anxiety, and depression while serving your family, friends, businesses, and churches with a smile on your face but hurt in your heart.
As a clinical social worker and minister, I was told by some to hold it together and that I don’t have the luxury of taking a break and dealing with the mess under the hood. And I tried. I tried really hard until I just couldn’t anymore.
This is not how God intends for us to live. This is not the abundant living He promised us!
I never want anyone else I come into contact with to navigate difficult waters by themselves because they are trying to remain strong for others or to save face.
I wanted to give others what I needed most, a non-judgmental ear and a safe space to navigate through depression and anxiety so I wouldn’t feel that I had to ever go back to its depths.
I don’t care if the difficulties were external challenges beyond your control or your own missteps that got you into the situation you are in, everyone deserves a safe space to be heard and begin building again.
I believe each day we wake up we have a chance to arrive at a better version of ourselves than the day before. I’m so grateful that I am not the same overwhelmed and depressed person I was even just a few short years ago.
This can be your testimony too.
So, come on, it’s your turn!
Let’s begin to mend your thinking and improve your overall mental, emotional, and spiritual health together!
You don’t have to do this thing alone!
Going to therapy is not always the easiest task for many so I do my best to make the transition easy. I'm all about building relationships, a little bit of humor, and making sure that you feel heard even in the darkest times. I always say, finding a therapist is like finding a good pair of jeans on sale. Once you're in there and comfortable, you can get to work.
In 2016 I wrote the book, Thirty-One Reasons to Praise: Because life gets rough sometimes a 31-day devotion and journal designed to help people through their rough seasons with peace and joy by bringing them back to the promises of God.
I wrote the book because I needed it. I needed to find solid biblical reasons to praise, find joy, and maintain peace in and after painful seasons in my life.
That’s when I realized who I was called to!
I am called to the person who doesn’t have a safe space to share their concerns, shame, fears, difficulties, anger, and missteps. The one who is secretly dealing with low self-esteem, spiritual doubt and confusion, grief and loss, anxiety, and depression while serving your family, friends, businesses, and churches with a smile on your face but hurt in your heart.
As a clinical social worker and minister, I was told by some to hold it together and that I don’t have the luxury of taking a break and dealing with the mess under the hood. And I tried. I tried really hard until I just couldn’t anymore.
This is not how God intends for us to live. This is not the abundant living He promised us!
I never want anyone else I come into contact with to navigate difficult waters by themselves because they are trying to remain strong for others or to save face.
I wanted to give others what I needed most, a non-judgmental ear and a safe space to navigate through depression and anxiety so I wouldn’t feel that I had to ever go back to its depths.
I don’t care if the difficulties were external challenges beyond your control or your own missteps that got you into the situation you are in, everyone deserves a safe space to be heard and begin building again.
I believe each day we wake up we have a chance to arrive at a better version of ourselves than the day before. I’m so grateful that I am not the same overwhelmed and depressed person I was even just a few short years ago.
This can be your testimony too.
So, come on, it’s your turn!
Let’s begin to mend your thinking and improve your overall mental, emotional, and spiritual health together!
You don’t have to do this thing alone!
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Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
