About Marlene
Marlene Smith is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She supports individuals dealing with low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and the emotional weight of life changes. Her tone is calm and direct, aimed at people who feel overwhelmed and need a steady place to talk.
Marlene focuses on making sessions a simple space to share what’s on your mind. She works to remove judgment and keep conversations practical.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to help clients notice patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills that fit daily life. Her background includes three years of clinical experience as an LPC in West Virginia. That time has involved supporting people through depression, adjustment after separation or divorce, and concerns tied to adoption and foster care.
She has also worked with issues like attachment challenges, body image, and the emotional impact of illness or aging. In sessions she draws from approaches that center the client’s experience and teach concrete skills. That can mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, improving emotional awareness, or practicing new ways to communicate.
Marlene aims to tailor these tools to what each person needs right now. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People who speak English can complete a short matching questionnaire to get started.
Online approaches that build skills and connection
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. In short sessions this can help someone make sense of repeating patterns and improve emotional connection in close relationships.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, self-esteem, and life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical alternatives. It teaches straightforward skills people can use between sessions to manage anxiety and low mood.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods, check what works, and adjust the plan based on real progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, while phone sessions fit a tighter schedule or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options help therapy fit into busy days and varying routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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