About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of experience practising in the United Kingdom. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and those facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse. Marlene speaks English, Italian and Maltese, which helps when clients prefer to explain things in another language.
She believes people know their own stories and brings a respectful, client-focused attitude to each session. The first steps can feel hard, and she acknowledges the courage it takes to reach out.
Background and approach
Her manner is calm and straightforward during conversations. In sessions she uses approaches that centre on understanding the person and their feelings. She helps people talk through low self-esteem, depression, anger and addiction, and supports practical ways to cope with life changes.
Marlene also assists with issues related to grief, caregiving strain, chronic illness and the emotional side of cancer. Her work includes helping clients manage relationship patterns, attachment concerns and problems with communication and commitment. She can also cover abandonment, dissociation, codependency and challenges linked to substance use.
Her focus extends to career stress, parenting strain and the particular pressures that come with ageing. Marlene offers different formats for contact and works with international clients. She aims to match approach to need and keeps sessions practical and conversational.
If someone wants to start, she invites them to take a first step and complete the brief matching process to arrange sessions.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The counsellor reflects what a person says, helps them name feelings, and supports them to find their own solutions. This approach is useful for anxiety, self-esteem and coping with life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centres on emotions in close relationships. It helps people notice interaction patterns and name the needs behind strong reactions. EFT can be useful when relationship strain, attachment problems or communication issues are at the core of the difficulty.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. That collaborative process means approaches can be adapted as therapy unfolds to better fit what helps most.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect between messages. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping the focus on what the person wants to achieve.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian, Maltese
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