About Marlea
Marlea Major welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, or changes at work. She is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with ten years of clinical experience. Marlea aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through what’s wearing them down and find practical ways to move forward.
Marlea draws on therapies that focus on the person in front of her.
How Marlea works
She uses client-centered methods to listen and follow what matters most to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build clearer coping skills. Mindfulness and existential ideas support people wrestling with life’s big questions and emotional pain.
Her background includes long experience with first responder roles and many years involved with adoption and foster care settings. That work shaped her understanding of trauma, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to military and emergency service lives. She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, panic, anger, addiction, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions typically focus on understandable, step-by-step changes. Marlea uses conversation, practical exercises, and motivational techniques to help people set goals and try small experiments between sessions. She explains ideas in plain language and partners with each person to find what fits their life.
Marlea practices in Florida and conducts online sessions in English. She encourages people to begin by identifying one concern they want to change and then building from there.
Marlea lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Marlea works with
The areas below are the ones Marlea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Marlea uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the person’s priorities and create space to talk without judgment. That approach focuses on listening closely and responding to what matters most to the client, often helpful for stress, parenting strain, and relationship concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT provides clear exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and coping, often useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and sleep struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marlea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she may combine elements from different approaches as needed. This is a joint process that begins with a few focused sessions to see what helps.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging fit brief updates, reflection between sessions, or moments when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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