About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. Marlene emphasises each person's own strengths and treats the first step into therapy as an important decision.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, anger, grief and questions around identity and belonging. She also supports people facing career change, parenting strain, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
How Marlene works
ADHD, attachment and abandonment worries are part of her day-to-day practice. Marlene uses approaches that centre the person's own experience and emotions. Her work aims to make talking about painful things feel manageable.
Sessions focus on building understanding, noticing patterns and trying practical ways to cope day to day. She offers a warm, direct style that balances listening with gentle challenge. The aim is to help people find clearer choices in relationships and life decisions.
Marlene encourages realistic steps that fit each person's situation. Sessions may include looking at how feelings shape responses, how past losses affect current relationships, and how habits maintain unhelpful cycles. She invites people to set goals together and adjust the pace as needed.
Marlene speaks English, Italian and Maltese and works with international clients from the UK base.
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What Marlene works with
The areas below are the ones Marlene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Italian, Maltese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Marlene's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the centre. The counsellor listens closely and helps people name their feelings and choices, which can ease stress and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions in relationships and helps people understand and shift patterns that cause distress in close connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marlene will explore your needs, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. The choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller sense of interaction, phone can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth situations, and messaging suits ongoing reflection or when written communication feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel while still working with a registered or accredited professional.
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