Marlea Major

Marlea Major is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, and major life transitions. She brings a calm, down-to-earth presence and focuses on meeting each person where they are. Marlea’s work emphasizes respect, compassion, and treating people without stigmatizing labels.

She has ten years of counseling experience and earlier service as a first responder and veteran. That background shapes how she understands trauma, caregiver strain, and the pressures that come with demanding jobs. She also has many years supporting foster children and the families who care for them, and she draws on that experience when addressing adoption, abandonment, and family-of-origin concerns.

In sessions Marlea uses client-centered listening alongside practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches. She blends those with existential ideas and mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and find meaning in difficult moments. Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports change when someone feels stuck.

Marlea works with a wide range of concerns including depression, sleep problems, anger, addictions, ADHD-related struggles, compassion fatigue, and relationship or family stress. She aims to help people regain a sense of control and move toward goals they set for themselves.

Her credentials include Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with practice based in Florida. Sessions are offered in English and focus on practical steps and compassionate support.

How Marlea’s approaches work online and in practice

Marlea combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral ideas to help people make clear, practical changes. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and follows the client’s lead while offering support and validation. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying thought and behavior patterns and testing new ways of coping to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change unhelpful habits.

She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice their reactions and on existential ideas to look at meaning, values, and life direction. These approaches can help when someone is coping with major life changes, burnout, compassion fatigue, or trauma after demanding work like first responder roles. Marlea works collaboratively to figure out which tools fit a person’s goals and preferences rather than imposing a single method.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options when you book. Marlea will help you decide how to use therapy to fit your life and schedule, including practical choices about session length and pace. Online care can make it easier to fit visits into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so therapy fits around work, parenting, or caregiving responsibilities.