About Marla
Marla Anderson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings seven years as an LPC to her work and draws on earlier experience in school counseling to connect with clients. Marla uses practical, easy-to-follow strategies so people can make small changes that add up.
She began in school counseling before moving into LPC practice in 2018 and completed the shift to full-time independent practice in 2021.
Background and approach
That background means she has worked with a wide age range and with common life challenges over many years. Marla helps people facing addiction concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and hard life transitions. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, blended family stress, and caregiver strain.
Chronic illness, cancer, and eating or substance-related problems are other areas she addresses. Her approach centers on the client and uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and motivational interviewing when those methods fit a person’s needs.
Sessions aim to be respectful and down-to-earth. Marla works with each person to build a plan that matches their situation and goals. She favors steps people can put into practice between meetings to see steady progress.
How evidence-based methods fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own answers. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offers empathy, and helps clients set goals that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marla will discuss different methods and together with the client decide what to try first. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods if something isn’t working or if priorities change.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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