About Marla
Marla Voss is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience who helps adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She works with people facing mood disorders, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, and issues tied to chronic illness or caregiving. Marla is based in Wisconsin and offers clear, down-to-earth support for practical problems.
Her sessions focus on listening first and then building goals that fit each person.
Background and approach
She leans on client-centered and attachment-based ideas to create a respectful, warm space. Marla also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused methods when they match a person’s needs. Her background includes community agencies, independent practice, and long experience in healthcare settings beginning in a hospital.
That mix helps her see how physical health and mental health affect each other. She aims to help people improve daily functioning, reduce troubling symptoms, and find more satisfying routines. Marla describes her style as sensitive and strengths-based.
She supports people in naming practical steps to manage emotions, handle grief, repair communication, or cope with chronic pain and illness. Sessions are collaborative - she works with clients to set goals and try approaches that feel right for them. She communicates in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Marla responds to messages on her scheduled workdays and helps people arrange sessions that fit their lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and expectations. Online sessions can help people identify patterns in how they connect and practice new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve trust. Client-Centered Therapy centers on a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation. In remote meetings the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify their goals in everyday language. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it can be used to manage anxiety, depression, and mood swings through structured exercises and homework.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those choices as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation when possible. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work or a busy day. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to match therapy to day-to-day life while using the therapist's clinical approaches in ways that suit the person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English