About Marla
Marla Monk is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She brings a practical, calm approach to sessions and centers conversations on what is happening now and what the person wants to change. With five years as an LCSW and LISW-CP, Marla draws on methods that help people name unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
She uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach tools for emotion regulation and problem solving.
Background and approach
She also incorporates client-centered work to make space for each person's priorities. Marla has experience supporting people through trauma, grief, and relationship challenges. She helps individuals process past hurt, manage anger, and rebuild safety after abuse or assault.
She also works with people facing caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and career-related pressure. Sessions often focus on concrete skills - sorting thoughts, testing beliefs, and practicing new ways of relating. She uses emotion-focused techniques and elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
The work aims to make daily life more manageable and relationships clearer. Marla provides therapy from South Carolina and offers sessions in English. Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the person's needs.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their goals at the center of sessions. The therapist listens closely, follows the person's lead, and helps identify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches ways to test and change unhelpful thinking. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, adds practical tools for managing intense emotions and improving coping during crises and day-to-day stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through a person's concerns and goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to issues like anxiety, relationship patterns, grief, or caregiver stress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes, practice skills between sessions, or check in when they need brief support. These formats give flexibility to work therapy into a busy life while using the therapist's clinical approaches to address real concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California, South Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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