Melonie Pinder, LMHC-QS is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor, (LMHC-QS) and Board Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) who pursued this passion after 10 years in marketing and sales for the hospitality industry. 

Melonie lives in central Florida and has over 10 years of expertise with therapeutic evaluation and assessment focusing on custody and safe placement for vulnerable children, in-home family therapy, school-based services, foster care,  and criminal justice work in county jails. She works in close collaboration with child welfare personnel dealing with child protection and placement.

She owns Pinder Counseling a group practice offering therapy services for individuals and couples. She also enjoys mentoring and supervising provisionally licensed interns as well as newly licensed therapists intend to build private practices.

She has provided extensive training on research-based strategies for addressing resilience, domestic and intimate-partner violence, and effective parenting.