About Marla
Marla Flores Reves is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and shifts in life stage. She works with clients who struggle with mood symptoms, trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and issues around identity and intimacy. Sessions are practical and focused on what helps a person feel steadier day to day.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens for how the body, mind, and relationships affect each other.
Background and approach
Somatic ideas inform her work by helping people notice physical signs of stress and use the body to ease emotional tension. She also uses attachment-focused and client-centered ways of working to build safety and trust. Marla brings 27 years of clinical experience to therapy.
She combines hands-on tools like cognitive behavioral techniques with space for people to tell their stories. That mix helps clients learn new habits, reframe difficult thoughts, and try different ways of relating to others. People often come for help with parenting pressures, caregiving strain, sleep problems, or the fallout from grief and trauma.
She also supports those managing chronic illness, career transitions, and questions about sexuality and identity. Work in sessions moves at a pace the client finds tolerable. Her credential is LMFT, license number CA LMFT 35038.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, chat, or text. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
How approaches translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress shows up in the body and then uses simple practices to reduce tension and increase comfort. This can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and the physical effects of trauma.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections. It can be useful for people dealing with trust, intimacy, or communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful space where the client's pace and priorities guide each session. That approach supports self-exploration and feeling heard.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on goals and comfort. Plans can be adapted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy days, continue work while traveling, or use shorter check-ins between longer appointments. The variety of formats makes it easier to practice skills and stay connected to a therapist in ways that fit everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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