About Marla
Marla Majors is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship strain, and family concerns. She keeps sessions conversational and down-to-earth so worried parents can follow along easily. Marla brings 11 years of clinical experience to her practice.
She works from a belief that each person knows their own story and already has strengths to build on. In sessions she uses plain talk, compassion, and a sense of humor to make hard conversations easier.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and interactive. People can expect a mix of talk therapy and practical tools. She frequently uses elements of cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior strategies to teach coping skills and emotion regulation.
Marla also draws on client-centered and attachment-informed ideas to help people feel heard and understood. That can look like focusing on relationships, communication patterns, and how early connections affect current stress and anxiety. Sessions aim to be engaging and useful rather than long lectures.
Marla helps clients set small, achievable goals and practices skills in session that transfer to everyday life. She encourages humor and real emotions as part of healing. Taking a first step can feel risky.
Marla offers steady, practical support to help people move toward more balance and clearer choices.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. It can help with anxiety and stress by teaching simple exercises to stay engaged with life despite difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that increase anxiety. It is useful for day-to-day coping and problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, which can be helpful for intense reactions and relationship conflict.Figuring out the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques in session, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than assuming one method fits everyone.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people practice skills while talking face-to-face. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing, convenient check-ins between sessions and can help people use strategies in real time. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work, and busy days while still working on anxiety, relationships, and everyday coping.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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