About Marla
Marla Stamm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience. She practices in Indiana and helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other life changes. Marla offers straightforward, goal-focused care and works with each client to set realistic steps toward change.
Marla uses a client-centered approach. That means she starts by listening and helps people define what they want to change. Together they create a treatment plan with clear goals and check progress regularly.
How Marla works
Sessions aim to be practical and aimed at real-life improvements. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when people need tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Motivational interviewing helps clients find their own reasons for change and build commitment. Marla also uses mindfulness practices to slow down racing thoughts and reduce stress. She integrates solution-focused techniques to keep sessions action-oriented and efficient.
This mix supports people working through grief, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, career stress, and concerns about self-esteem and intimacy. Her style is warm and practical. Marla guides people through small, manageable steps rather than promising quick fixes.
She invites collaboration and revisits goals as life shifts, helping clients adapt their plan as needed.
Marla lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Marla uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and social anxiety by breaking issues into concrete steps and practice tasks.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques can be useful when feelings feel overwhelming or when communication repeatedly breaks down. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find personal reasons to change and build commitment one step at a time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marla will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She revisits what is working and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions are useful when a video connection is difficult or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection and quick touch-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when schedules or locations change.
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