About Marla
Marla Majors helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, and depression. She presents a calm, down-to-earth presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Marla is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - practicing in Washington with 11 years of experience.
Her sessions are warm and often lightly humorous. She treats the person, not just the problem, and looks for strengths in each story.
Background and approach
Conversations are interactive and focused on what matters to the client in day-to-day life. Marla blends talk therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered techniques. That mix means she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, build new skills, and make choices that match their values.
She also draws on attachment-focused work when relationship or family history shapes current problems. People can expect a session that is straightforward and collaborative. Marla uses practical exercises, skill practice, and reflection rather than long theoretical lectures.
She aims to keep sessions real, sometimes funny, and always focused on progress. Taking a first step can feel hard, and Marla frames that step as a courageous move. She supports people who want clearer communication, fewer urges, better mood, or less daily tension.
Her approach centers on small changes that add up to better functioning and more satisfying relationships.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters to them. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and when someone feels stuck in old habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms and change behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and problem behaviors.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. Sessions are collaborative - goals and techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for visual connection and deeper conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in, live chat is useful for short problem-solving, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work even when travel or time constraints make in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English