Marlene Leach, BACP
14 years in practice
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- BACP
- 119267 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English, Italian, Maltese
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About Marlene
Marlene Leach is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, addiction and anger, and supports those dealing with relationship and family difficulties. Marlene also helps people coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, obsessive thoughts, and the strain of parenting and career change.
She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make sense of painful feelings and to find clearer ways of making choices. Marlene keeps the work straightforward and centred on what matters most to the individual. Marlene draws on Existential therapy to look at meaning, responsibility and freedom when life feels uncertain.
She also uses Client-Centred methods to create an accepting space and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at emotional patterns in relationships. These approaches are used together to respond to practical problems and deeper questions about identity and connection. Her experience includes work with grief, chronic illness, caregiver stress and issues around attachment and abandonment.
She also supports people affected by addiction, codependency and dissociation, and those coping after disasters or serious health challenges. Sessions are available in English, Italian and Maltese. Marlene offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Marlene lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Marlene names
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Online support
How Marlene's approaches work online
Existential therapy helps people notice and name life's big questions - meaning, choice and responsibility - and is useful when someone feels lost, stuck or overwhelmed by change. Client-Centred work focuses on listening and acceptance, giving space for someone to speak and reflect without judgement. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how feelings shape relationships and helps people understand and change unhelpful patterns between themselves and others.Finding the right therapeutic mix is part of the therapy itself. Marlene will work with the person to choose approaches that fit their goals, needs and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change as issues shift over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written reflection or who want flexible, ongoing contact. These options help people access support from different places and at different times.
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Questions people ask
What concerns can be addressed in sessions?
Marlene supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, low self-esteem and anger. Additional areas include grief, parenting strain, ADHD, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Her style combines Existential, Client-Centred and Emotionally-Focused approaches to look at meaning, feelings and relationship patterns. The work is collaborative and practical, focusing on what matters to the person.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of professional work experience supporting people with a wide range of emotional and life difficulties. That background informs a flexible, person-focused approach.
Where is the therapist based and what credential is held?
She practises from the United Kingdom and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP on her profile.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, Italian and Maltese to accommodate speakers of those languages.
What session formats are available?
Work can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines and preferences.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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