Therapeutic work with adolescents and adults
Marleen has worked in private-practice settings in both Windhoek and Swakopmund, offering individual psychotherapy and psychological support.
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The person behind Desert Psychology.
Marleen Laubscher is a clinical psychologist, researcher and mental-health educator based in Swakopmund, Namibia.
Professional story
Clinical experience held alongside curiosity, context and connection.
Marleen’s experience spans hospital-based, inpatient, outpatient and private-practice settings. She works with adolescents, adults and groups presenting with a wide range of mental-health and interpersonal difficulties.
Her work is responsive, evidence-informed and relationally attuned. She is particularly interested in the ways trauma, nervous-system responses, protective patterns and relationships shape a person’s inner world, and in helping psychological understanding become practical, compassionate and usable.
Marleen established Desert Psychology in 2024 as her clinical home. Alongside therapy, her work also includes psychological education, capacity work, workshops, articles and practical resources.
Clinical background
Marleen is trained as a clinical psychologist, with an additional background in counselling, communication and body-based work. Her clinical foundation, together with experience across private-practice, hospital and group settings, informs a thoughtful, evidence-informed and relational approach.
Experience
Experience across clinical, hospital and community settings.
Multidisciplinary and group-based care
Her earlier experience includes inpatient, outpatient and day-hospital work within multidisciplinary mental-health settings, including individual and group-based support.
A relational clinical practice
Desert Psychology brings together Marleen’s individual therapeutic work, group spaces and a longer-term vision for thoughtful clinical collaboration.
Education and capacity beyond therapy
Her wider work includes psychological education, practitioner and organisational initiatives, workshops, programmes, articles and practical resources.
Research
Mental-health stigma in Namibia.
Marleen co-authored research examining public stigma, community attitudes and demographic influences on mental-health stigma among adults in Windhoek, with implications for more targeted stigma-reduction interventions.
Published in the Journal of the Namibia Scientific Society, Volume 72, 2025.
Education & public engagement
Bringing psychological knowledge into public conversation.
Her work has included radio and television conversations across a range of mental-health topics, as well as community, workplace and psychoeducational workshops.
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Begin with a conversation.
A brief enquiry is enough. Marleen will consider what is being sought, current capacity, fit and the most appropriate next step.