About Marla
Marla Flores Reves is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience working in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, ADHD-related struggles, and the everyday challenges that come with relationships and life changes. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping clients find practical steps they can use right away.
She uses a person-centered style that puts each individual's experience first.
Background and approach
Sessions often start by listening closely to what matters most and then trying small, doable changes to improve day-to-day functioning. Marla also integrates cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas are woven into her work when relationship patterns or caregiving roles affect present life.
Mindfulness practices and existential conversations about meaning and values are offered when people want to clarify priorities or cope with major transitions. These approaches are presented in straightforward language and adapted to each person's rhythm. Marla has long experience supporting people through grief, trauma, addiction concerns, sleep and anger problems, and shifts related to career or caregiving.
She also works with issues tied to identity and sexuality, including LGBT concerns, and offers coaching-style support when clients want more action-focused guidance. People who choose her often seek a steady, experienced clinician who balances practical tools with empathic listening. Her work aims to help clients build resilience, improve relationships, and gain clearer direction for the next steps in life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Marla draws on client-centered therapy to create a space where the client directs the conversation and feels heard. This approach helps when someone needs validation and wants to explore their values and goals at their own pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thought patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or ADHD-related distraction and to try practical behavior changes that can reduce symptoms.Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. Marla listens to each person's concerns and goals, then suggests approaches to try together. She adjusts methods over time based on how each person responds and what they want to accomplish.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging suits ongoing check-ins, focused coaching, or people who prefer text-based communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving between sessions.
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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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