- Years in practice
- 14
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Italian, Maltese
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of practice in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. She focuses on practical support for common concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and difficulties with self-esteem. Parents reading this will find a direct, down-to-earth style and someone who values each person’s own knowledge of their life.
Marlene works from the view that people already hold many strengths they can use to cope.
Background and approach
She talks with clients about everyday challenges and helps them try new ways of responding. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at small, manageable changes that reduce stress and improve relationships. Her background includes many years helping people navigate relationship problems and workplace issues, including patterns of control and conflicts linked to narcissistic behaviour.
She also supports those facing grief, chronic health concerns, caregiving strain, and life transitions like ageing or career change. Marlene draws on client-centred methods and emotionally focused ideas to help people deepen understanding of difficult feelings. She also uses existential perspectives to tackle questions about meaning, choice and personal values.
These approaches are used in simple, practical ways during sessions. Sessions are offered in English, Italian and Maltese. Marlene works online with people across borders and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
If someone is ready to begin, they follow a short matching questionnaire to connect and schedule sessions.
What Marlene works with
Everything Marlene lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Marlene helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Marlene lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How her approaches fit with online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience and building on their strengths. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and reflects what she hears to help people feel heard and understood. It is useful when someone needs space to sort out feelings and make choices.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns in close relationships. The approach helps people identify difficult feelings, name them, and try different ways of connecting with others. It can be helpful for relationship stress and parenting-related emotional strains.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marlene will talk through goals and preferences and adapt methods to what suits the person best. That collaboration helps shape sessions so they feel relevant and doable.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when complex emotional work is helpful. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Marlene
What types of concerns does she help with?
Marlene supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, and low self-esteem. She also addresses relationship strain, grief, parenting worries and career changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is straightforward and practical, focusing on a person’s strengths and small changes. Conversations aim to make daily life more manageable rather than use technical language.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of professional practice in the United Kingdom. That experience includes work on relationship and workplace difficulties among other issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Italian and Maltese. International clients can be accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. After that you can schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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