About Marlea
Marlea Major is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Florida. She draws on a decade of counseling experience to help people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start.
Her work combines client-centered listening with practical skills. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to build awareness and reduce reactivity in daily life. Marlea also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and direction after big changes. Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit for people working through addictions, ambivalence, or major life decisions.
Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and why it matters to them. She has a background that includes long service as a first responder and experience with foster care systems. That experience informs her understanding of trauma, caregiver stress, and the strain many people carry from demanding roles.
Marlea emphasizes respect, dignity, and a nonjudgmental approach. In sessions she mixes education with hands-on strategies. People can expect a calm, steady presence and concrete steps they can try between meetings.
The goal is to help each person regain a sense of control and move toward the life they want.
How Marlea’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Marlea commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-centered work focuses on listening, respect, and helping the person lead the conversation about what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and offers step-by-step strategies to change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the work feels useful and relevant rather than rigid.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching skills, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for different routines, work schedules, and comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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