About Marla
Marla Monk uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She brings five years of clinical social work experience and holds LCSW and LISW-CP credentials. Marla aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can talk through immediate problems and build new coping skills.
Marla blends client-centered care with practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She helps people identify troubling thoughts, practice new skills for intense emotions, and rebuild connection after loss or hurt.
How Marla works
Sessions focus on steps you can use right away, not just long conversations. Her work also draws on emotionally-focused ideas and the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are a concern. That means paying attention to emotional needs and communication habits, then practicing different ways of relating.
Marla supports people dealing with intimacy issues, parenting stress, family of origin concerns, and complicated grief. She has additional experience with adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, first responder and veteran-related issues, sexual assault and domestic violence recovery, and compassion fatigue.
Marla adapts her approach to what each person says matters most to them, and she focuses on concrete tools that help daily life. Marla practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are scheduled after a short matching questionnaire is completed.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Marla uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people address thoughts, feelings, and daily stressors. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience so they feel heard and can decide goals. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques for managing strong emotions and improving stress tolerance. DBT offers clear skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions, which can be useful after trauma or during relationship strain. Choosing the right mix of methods is collaborative; Marla discusses needs, goals, and preferences and adapts the approach over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping therapeutic work focused and practical.
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