This Hart therapist has a warm, empathic, and non-judgmental therapy approach, which she uses to create a safe and supportive space for you heal your relationship. She feels honoured when her clients share their sensitive and vulnerable parts of themselves as they work towards healing their relationships.
With her authentic, curious, and gentle challenging style, she encourages healing, relationship repair, and growth.
Please note, Marlena has an average wait time of 4-6 weeks for new clients. Please contact us for availability.
This Hart therapist finds great pleasure in working with couples. Her personal and professional journey of healing and growth has shown her how essential healthy relationships are to our happiness and wellbeing. She believes that we all get a bit stacked at times and require support. She recognises that relationships are complex and can bring both joy and hurt; and that it is through relationships that we heal, grow, and live satisfying lives.
With over 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples and families, she has the expertise to help you heal, and has trained and worked with a range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities.
Attuning to your concerns and needs, she will choose approaches suited to you, whether you are an individual or a couple. She will assist you to connect to your own resources such as curiosity, compassion, courage and more, in order to understand and heal your struggling parts and your relationship; to become your own caring, present and loving therapist and to experience more rewarding relationships and a happier life.
In addition to helping individuals and couples resolve relationship issues, she has worked intensively with issues of trauma, depression, anxiety, various addictive behaviours, including problematic gambling, eating disorders, grief and loss, mental health, abuse, self esteem, stigma, and parenting difficulties.
She is bilingual and can counsel in both English and Polish.
She is a registered Medicare Provider.
