About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of practice in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She also offers support for relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem.
Marlene speaks English, Italian and Maltese and accepts international clients. Her approach begins by listening and helping people tell their story in their own words.
Background and approach
She believes clients know their lives best and builds on their strengths. That makes practical goals easier to set and reach. Marlene uses a person-focused stance in sessions so the conversation stays centred on what matters to the client.
She draws on emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and attachment feel central. Existential themes are introduced when people are wrestling with meaning, purpose or major life changes. Typical sessions involve talking through current problems, noticing patterns that keep difficulties going, and trying small practical changes between sessions.
She supports people coping with grief, family strain, parenting pressures, career stress and chronic health challenges. Marlene also helps when issues include anger, codependency, dissociation or problems linked to addiction. She aims to make the process clear and manageable.
New clients complete a short questionnaire to match with her and then book sessions that suit their schedule. Marlene welcomes people who want calm, straightforward help for real-life problems.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps the person set their own goals, which suits worries like low self-esteem, anxiety or life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on feelings within relationships and attachment. It helps people notice how emotional patterns affect their bonds and learn new ways to communicate and connect when trust or closeness has been damaged.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marlene will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they choose techniques and pacing that fit the client's life and needs rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflections or when people prefer writing to talking.
These formats make it easier to maintain continuity between sessions and to practise changes in everyday settings. Registered and accredited professionals can adapt exercises and pacing to online formats so therapy remains practical and focused on real-life goals.
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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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