Marla Flores Reves

Marla Flores Reves is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, relationship difficulties, and major life changes. Her aim is practical: help clients feel steadier, communicate clearer, and make choices that fit their values.

She uses mindfulness practices to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting swept away. She also works from an attachment-based perspective to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-centered methods guide sessions so the person's priorities shape the work together.

Her background includes long experience supporting caregivers, people navigating cultural differences, and those facing life-stage challenges from young adulthood into midlife and later years. That experience informs how she helps people manage caregiving strain, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness, and blended family stress.

In sessions she blends conversational reflection with concrete tools. She may introduce cognitive-behavioral ideas to test unhelpful thinking, use narrative techniques to reframe personal stories, or offer simple mindfulness exercises for daily use. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort.

Marla practices in California and works in English. She holds a California LMFT, and brings a long track record of steady clinical practice to support people making change.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Marla combines mindfulness therapy, attachment-based therapy, and client-centered methods in her work. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily responses and build simple daily practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they connect and set boundaries. Client-centered therapy keeps the persons goals and lived experience central so sessions follow what feels most important in the moment.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, previous therapy experiences, and what feels most useful. Together you can try different tools and adjust the focus as needs shift over time.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking since they are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, enable brief check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also allows use of guided mindfulness exercises, mood-tracking conversations, and practical homework that integrate into daily life.