About Marla
Marla Flores Reves helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. She offers calm, practical guidance for stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Marla is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience in California and she works in English.
She focuses on real-life problems like parenting strain, caregiver stress, career challenges, and coping with big life changes. She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, sleep disruption, and issues tied to identity and intimacy.
How Marla works
Marla pays attention to how attachment, communication, and past experiences shape current patterns. In sessions she uses person-centered methods that make the client the expert on their life. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and existential ideas help people clarify values and find meaning when life feels uncertain. Marla describes therapy as collaborative work. She listens, reflects, and offers tools you can try between meetings.
The pace and focus adjust to each person - some people want practical skills while others need space to process loss or trauma. Her additional experience includes aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family concerns, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and anger and control issues.
She aims to help clients build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and move toward clearer goals. To begin, she recommends a short intake to match goals and set a plan for sessions. Marla structures work so goals feel tangible and progress can be tracked over time.
Marla lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Marla works with
The areas below are the ones Marla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape how people connect and trust. It can help when relationship patterns, intimacy worries, or caregiving stress keep repeating. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and the client's own goals; it gives space for people to tell their story and find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. Sessions may combine approaches so you get both skills and time for reflection.
Online therapy with this clinician is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coaching, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible while keeping focus on real change and steady progress.
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