About Marlene
Marlene Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and depression. She writes in plain, direct ways and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. She uses a warm, nonjudgmental approach so clients can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings.
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings. Marlene encourages small changes that build confidence and decrease day-to-day distress.
Background and approach
Her work draws on approaches that emphasize relationships, present-focused thinking, and emotional skills. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new ways of responding, and practice coping tools. Conversation and collaborative problem solving shape most sessions.
Marlene has three years of professional experience as an LPC in West Virginia. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Alongside common concerns like anxiety and depression, she also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, body image, cancer-related stress, divorce and separation, and communication problems. She meets each person where they are and adjusts the work to their situation.
To begin, prospective clients use the site's matching process and schedule a session based on therapist availability. Marlene aims to help people feel more able to handle life’s challenges through steady, understandable steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why certain interactions feel upsetting and offers ways to try safer, more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers clear techniques to test unhelpful beliefs and build different habits that reduce anxiety and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each client to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration means trying practical steps, reviewing what works, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit everyday life. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter voice check-in is preferred. Live chat and text sessions can suit shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who find typing their thoughts easier. These options allow therapy to fit around work, family, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on useful, moment-to-moment progress.
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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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