About Marla
Marla Flores Reves is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. Parents and caregivers who are overwhelmed often come to her for steady, practical guidance.
With 27 years of experience in California, Marla brings long-term clinical work to simple, doable steps. She focuses on real-life concerns like sleep problems, anger, addictions, and coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what’s causing daily distress and to try small, helpful changes between meetings. Her style is warm and person-centered. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current responses.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Marla also uses mindfulness and narrative approaches to help people notice patterns and tell different stories about their lives. That combination is useful for grief, trauma, and self-esteem struggles.
She frames work as exploring problems together rather than delivering one fixed solution. People describe practical outcomes as learning new ways to manage anxiety, improve communication, and set stronger boundaries. Marla supports clients through parenting stress, caregiver burden, and workplace pressure.
Her aim is steady progress toward clearer goals and improved day-to-day functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current feelings and reactions; online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, giving space for whatever feels most important while the therapist listens and mirrors back what’s happening. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will discuss your goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and adapt techniques to your needs. Together you can try different strategies and pick what feels most useful. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, written reflections, or shorter coaching-style support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep progress going even when in-person visits aren’t possible.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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