About Marlea
Marlea Major is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She is straightforward and calm, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Marlea has a direct background tied to first responder work and foster care systems, so she understands some of the pressures that come with those experiences.
With ten years as a licensed clinician and prior years in military and local first responder roles, Marlea draws on a wide set of life and professional experiences.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to address symptoms like panic, sleep disruption, anger, and low self-esteem. Sessions often include skills to manage worry, reduce avoidance, and ease symptoms related to trauma and compassion fatigue. Marlea favors approaches that center the person and their goals.
She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Motivational interviewing and existential conversation are used when clients want to explore values, choices, and meaning alongside practical change. Her work often focuses on issues such as parenting strain, family of origin concerns, addiction, career stress, ADHD-related struggles, and relationship challenges.
She also addresses areas like abandonment, adoption and foster care, dissociation, and first responder-related stress. Marlea offers phone, video, chat, and text formats to fit different schedules. People who want clear, respectful support and concrete tools may find her approach helpful.
She encourages gradual steps and helps people set realistic goals. When someone is ready to begin, she guides the first steps toward stability and better daily functioning.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are, helping them set goals and be heard. Online sessions let that conversation continue without travel, so progress can fit a busy life.Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote work these skills can include structured exercises, behavioral experiments, and regular check-ins that keep changes on track between sessions.
Mindfulness helps people notice stress and respond differently to upsetting thoughts or sensations. Simple mindfulness practices and short guided exercises can be shared during video or text sessions and used throughout the week to reduce reactivity.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That conversation guides whether the focus is symptom reduction, building coping skills, or exploring deeper meaning.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions simplify connections when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can keep progress moving between appointments. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or irregular schedules while keeping the work focused and actionable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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