About Marlea
Marlea Major is a licensed mental health counselor with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, parenting challenges, addiction, depression, and relationship or family strain. Her style is direct and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use day to day.
She draws on a long background as a first responder and military veteran to understand job-related stress and trauma. That experience shaped her sense of how intense work and caregiving roles affect mood, sleep, and relationships.
Background and approach
It also informs the way she talks about coping and recovery in clear, down-to-earth terms. Marlea uses person-centered listening alongside cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes. She also weaves in mindfulness practices and existential perspective when clients want to examine values and meaning.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is ambivalent about change or needs support building motivation. People meet practical strategies for sleep problems, panic and social anxiety, impulsivity, and compassion fatigue. She has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, veteran and first responder issues, caregiver stress, and varied forms of trauma including domestic violence and abuse.
ADHD, self-esteem work, and career stress are also areas she addresses. Sessions are offered from Florida and conducted in English. Marlea emphasizes respect, dignity, and nonjudgmental support as people work toward clearer goals and steadier daily routines.
How Marlea integrates approaches in online care
Marlea commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on careful listening and meeting each person where they are; it helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, life context, and preferences, then suggest experiments or practices to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing brief check-ins or reflections. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during a workday, or more gradual pacing for people who prefer written communication.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Marlea help with?
What is her general therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
What session formats does she use?
How is cost handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor 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