About Marla
Marla Patterson provides support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, ADHD, anger, and major life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, compassion fatigue, and trauma recovery. Marla is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Georgia and offering talk-based care and coaching-style guidance.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions focus on the person’s strengths and practical steps. Marla aims to build a steady, encouraging space where people can speak honestly and try out new ways of handling problems.
Background and approach
Marla uses a strengths-based approach that highlights resilience and resourcefulness. She works collaboratively to set goals and choose strategies that match what each person needs. Counseling conversations may include problem-solving, coping skills, and planning for change.
With 14 years of experience, Marla draws on a broad behavioral health background to help people navigate complex feelings and life transitions. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients practice alternatives that fit their daily life. Sessions can include short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on the goals.
Marla encourages people to bring real-world situations to sessions so they can practice skills between meetings and track progress together.
Online approaches and how they work together
Marla commonly uses evidence-based techniques that emphasize strengths and practical skills. One approach focuses on building coping skills and problem-solving to reduce stress and manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and ADHD. This involves identifying patterns that cause difficulty and practicing small, doable changes between sessions.Another approach centers on resilience and resource-building. It helps people recognize personal strengths, rebuild confidence after setbacks, and create step-by-step plans for life changes or recovery from trauma and addiction. These methods often include short coaching-style assignments to try between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Marla collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She will adjust strategies over time and check in about what is or isn’t helpful so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let you preserve conversational flow and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching moments during a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice skills in real life while fitting therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English