About Marla
Marla Moreno is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with eight years of clinical experience. She helps adults navigate anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, and other life stressors. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at finding practical steps clients can use day to day.
Marla uses straightforward tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that get in the way. She blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness and motivational strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete skills for managing mood, improving communication, and coping with big changes. Clients can expect an empathic, down-to-earth style that balances listening with skill teaching. Marla often works on goal-setting and small, manageable behavior changes that build confidence over time.
She explains ideas in plain language and checks in on what is most useful for each person. Her background includes work with stress, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and problem behaviors like impulsivity and process addictions. Marla also supports people dealing with relationship strain, divorce and separation issues, and post-traumatic stress-related challenges.
In sessions she draws on narrative and solution-focused methods to help clients reframe difficult stories and try new ways forward. The focus is practical: identify a goal, try a skill, review what worked, and adjust the plan. This approach helps people move through immediate problems while building long-term coping skills.
How her approaches translate to online work
Marla uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors, try specific skills, and track small changes that reduce distress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can reduce reactivity and improve focus for daily life. Motivational Interviewing supports clients who feel stuck by clarifying values and building readiness to try new behaviors.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marla discusses goals and preferences during early sessions and adjusts methods based on what feels useful. Together the therapist and client choose skills and small experiments to try between appointments and then review results in later sessions.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, ongoing coaching, and follow-up between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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