About Marla
Marla Johnson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and focuses on clear, practical steps forward. Marla aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns in a calm, respectful setting.
She uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's goals first. That means listening closely, reflecting what comes up, and helping clients notice strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Marla also draws on solution-focused methods to build concrete skills for everyday problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out small behavior changes to test what works.
Mindfulness approaches are offered to improve attention, reduce reactivity, and support better sleep and emotion management. Across many areas - parenting stress, relationship strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, and trauma - Marla aims for practical steps that fit a person's life. She values warmth, validation, and a nonjudgmental tone in sessions.
Clients can expect clear goals, straightforward strategies, and steady support. Marla practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. Her work is intended to help people cope with life changes, move through intense emotions, and build skills that make daily life feel more manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Marla uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening-first relationship where a person’s goals set the direction. This approach focuses on understanding experiences and reflecting strengths so clients can make choices that feel right for them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxiety, panic, and mood challenges by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which helps when someone needs tools for managing worry or improving sleep.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marla collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps most and what a person can realistically use between sessions.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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