Marlea Major, LMHC, LPC

Marlea Major is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and depression. She brings a calm, respectful presence and emphasizes treating each person with dignity. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone take back control when life feels overwhelming.

Marlea has 10 years as a licensed clinician and more than 20 years of experience as a first responder in military and local agencies. That background shapes how she understands trauma and high-stress work. She also has long experience supporting foster children and the caregivers who raise them, which informs her work around family and parenting challenges.

In sessions she uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, existential ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings, such as small behavior changes, emotion regulation practices, and clarity around values and goals. The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Marlea works with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, panic and social anxiety, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to past abuse or dissociation. She also addresses career stress, self-esteem, and relationship or family conflict when individuals bring those topics.

Her office is in Florida and she conducts work in English. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How talk therapy methods translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people feel heard while they talk through goals and struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses small experiments to shift unhelpful patterns. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and many day-to-day problems.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to identify which approaches fit their needs and values. That may mean combining client-centered listening with CBT skill-building, mindfulness practices, or motivational interviewing to support change and recovery.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific delivery options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. It can also allow focused practice of skills between meetings and steady follow-up on goals without requiring a long commute. Licensed professionals tailor the pace and tools to each person’s daily life and aims.