About

Hi, my name is Marc De Leon. I am a spiritual person who embraces both the perspectives of faith/religion and the evidence-based/psychology approach in counseling and psychotherapy. As a member of the universal human race. I believe that human beings, regardless of their circumstances, deserve care, to be listened to, and to be treated with equality and respect. This is the foundation of my counseling and psychotherapy practice. From my practice perspective, this “universal” principle allows me to make myself available to all who search for someone who could listen to their sacred stories.

Understanding what life is through the lenses of an experienced and experientially learned professional is key to becoming an effective and competent counselor and therapist—a companion in finding answers to the unknown, in searching for healing to one's brokenness, in treatment and solution to specific life issues, in relationship healing through acceptable and equitable compromises, and in many more cases that deprive a person from enjoying a life-giving and meaningful life.

Competency-wise, I have over forty years (26 years in Canada) of experience accompanying others in their life journey through life coaching, spiritual discernment and direction, relational-couple mediation, parents-children relationship healing, college and university students’ life navigation, and path-searching for students ranging from secondary education to university degree programs.

I have extensive experience in pastoral care, spiritual care, counseling, and psychotherapy in healthcare settings, in community mental health clinics, in penitentiaries, in various charity and not-for-profit community groups, in faith-based groups, and in street corners, plazas, and public areas where less fortunate individuals are left unnoticed despite their presence and visible deprivation of attention, care, and support.

I work with a variety of clients, including teenagers as young as sixteen (16), adults, couples, families (a family therapy intervention must include a child under 16), and seniors 65 and older.

I help clients of psychologists and psychiatrists. 

I have worked as a chaplain and spiritual care practitioner in various hospitals, serving a wide range of patient populations, including family mothers (for perinatal losses), oncology, medicine, surgery, alternative living care, emergency/crisis care, mental health (both inpatient and outpatient), palliative care, and end-of-life care. I defined spiritual care as a lifelong companionship that extends from conception to death. I draw from a broad array of therapeutic modalities, with the main one being spirituality-integrated psychotherapy. My primary therapeutic tool, empathic listening, emphasizes my commitment to accompany you on your journey as you navigate through the meaning-making process.​

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I also provide counseling and psychotherepy in Filipino (Tagalog) language.

This is what the Listening Post could offer. Come and see for yourself.