About Marla
Marla Moreno is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon with eight years of clinical experience. She helps adults work through anxiety, depression, mood challenges, and life changes. Her manner is direct yet warm, and she aims to create clear goals for each person she sees.
Marla uses a mix of approaches and picks techniques to match the person in front of her. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to examine unhelpful thought patterns and on Mindfulness to teach calm, focused attention.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding the energy to change a habit or take a next step. Sessions focus on practical skills patients can use day to day. That can mean learning new ways to talk about needs, managing anger, or building routines that reduce overwhelm.
Marla also supports people facing bipolar mood swings, attention challenges, trauma responses, and struggles with impulsivity or process behaviors such as problematic internet or gambling use. Her style combines straightforward feedback with compassionate listening. She works collaboratively to set measurable goals and plans that break larger problems into manageable steps.
Many clients leave sessions with a short practice or experiment to try before the next meeting. Marla welcomes adults who want concrete tools and steady support while navigating change. She guides each person toward clearer thinking, better coping habits, and stronger daily functioning.
How practical approaches transfer to online care
Marla commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to lower reactivity and increase calm.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change. That approach uses guided questions and reflections to build motivation and set realistic next steps. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together - the therapist and client decide collaboratively which approaches fit goals, pace, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different needs. Video allows face-to-face work and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain steady contact and try new tools between meetings.
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What this counselor 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