About Marla
Marla Patterson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on anxiety and a broad range of concerns. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem, anger, and relationships. Her style is calm and respectful and she aims to make conversations feel straightforward and useful.
Marla uses a strength-based approach that invites people to notice the resources they already have. She helps clients identify practical steps they can take day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative with clear goals and small tasks to try between meetings. With 14 years of counseling experience, Marla draws on work across behavioral health and mental health settings. She keeps the focus on what a person needs now rather than on labels.
That helps people cope with life changes like career shifts, parenting strain, or the aftermath of loss. Her sessions often tackle emotion management, coping strategies, and rebuilding confidence after setbacks. Marla also supports workplace stress and compassion fatigue, and she addresses concerns linked to ADHD and bipolar symptoms in straightforward terms.
She explains options plainly and helps clients choose what to try first. Marla offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging for flexible contact. She practices in Georgia and works in English.
To begin she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Marla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building coping skills and shifting unhelpful patterns. One approach emphasizes strength-based work, helping people recognize their resourcefulness and resilience and apply those strengths to daily challenges like anxiety and stress. Another common technique she uses teaches practical emotion regulation and coping strategies to manage intense feelings and reduce reactivity in moments of anger or overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marla will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. This makes therapy feel more tailored and manageable rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are practical for quick check-ins, brief coping coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and to work on anxiety, grief, or life changes without rearranging a whole day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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