- Focus on self esteem
- Practical communication work
- Support for caregivers
About Marla
Marla Maynard is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 18 years of practice in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self esteem concerns. She also supports those dealing with relationship and family conflict, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and compassion fatigue.
Her approach is straightforward and conversational. She aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings. Marla focuses on practical steps people can take between sessions to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
In sessions she listens for patterns that fuel worry, conflict, or low selfworth. She helps people notice how they communicate and how that affects their close relationships. Together they try new ways of speaking and setting boundaries that reduce tension and increase connection.
Marla has worked across many areas related to family life, including caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and family of origin issues. She also supports people navigating aging and geriatric questions, autism and Asperger syndrome related concerns, and adjustment after separation or divorce.
She brings nearly two decades of experience to each meeting and tailors the pace to the person in front of her. Her goal is to help clients build more confidence, manage strong emotions, and regain a clearer sense of what they want next.
Her approach is straightforward and conversational. She aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings. Marla focuses on practical steps people can take between sessions to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
In sessions she listens for patterns that fuel worry, conflict, or low selfworth. She helps people notice how they communicate and how that affects their close relationships. Together they try new ways of speaking and setting boundaries that reduce tension and increase connection.
Marla has worked across many areas related to family life, including caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and family of origin issues. She also supports people navigating aging and geriatric questions, autism and Asperger syndrome related concerns, and adjustment after separation or divorce.
She brings nearly two decades of experience to each meeting and tailors the pace to the person in front of her. Her goal is to help clients build more confidence, manage strong emotions, and regain a clearer sense of what they want next.