- Attachment-focused care
- Practical coping tools
- Focus on relationships
About Marla
Marla Flores Reves is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and codependency. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and direct, with attention to each person's background and goals.
She brings 27 years of experience working with adults through life changes, grief, and caregiving stress. Sessions aim to clarify patterns that get in the way of feeling stable. Marla offers tools for managing mood, sleep, and day-to-day coping while addressing underlying relationship dynamics.
Her approach is rooted in attachment-based and client-centered ideas, which means she pays attention to how past relationships shape current feelings. She also uses cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Conversations are practical and grounded in the client’s real life.
Marla often supports people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, addictions, compassion fatigue, and neurodiversity-related issues such as autism traits or ADHD. She also works with aging and caregiver stress and with those facing chronic illness and pain. Her goal is to help people build clearer boundaries and more satisfying connections.
If someone is unsure where to begin, Marla helps set small, achievable goals and checks progress over time. She encourages curiosity about patterns and steady steps toward change rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Marla draws on attachment-based work to look at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and emotional reactions; this helps people who feel stuck in repeating cycles with others. Client-centered therapy is another core element, which creates a respectful, empathetic space where the person sets the pace and topics for change. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and to practice small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Marla discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods over time. She encourages trying tools in between sessions and checking what helps, so therapy stays practical and tailored to individual needs.
Confirm the current session options before booking to learn how meetings are scheduled. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or letting people meet from a quieter spot at work during a break. It can also allow shorter check-ins when that matches a client’s needs. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral techniques to work well in remote sessions, focusing on skill practice, tracking progress, and applying insights to everyday situations.
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Experience
27+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Marla commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, codependency, ADHD, and caregiving stress among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a warm, person-centered style combined with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people try new ways of coping.
What is her professional background?
She has 27 years of clinical experience supporting adults through life transitions, caregiving challenges, and identity-related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing in California.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.