Client Success Stories

Marla has helped me to get more organized and to set goals to work toward.

I'm balancing a full workload (I currently have 4 part-time jobs), graduate school, and 15-20 hours of training as a competitive cyclist. For a few years, I was having trouble committing myself to finding a new job and this was, in turn, making it difficult for me to work toward my graduate degree. Together we identified obstacles that were preventing me from truly going after the job that I would be happiest in. I recently overcame a major hurdle in my progress toward my degree and am in touch with an increasing pool of potential employers.

Marla is a time management guru, to be sure, but her most unique skill is her ability to ask questions that help me to step outside of myself for a moment and take a hard look at my motivations and decision making processes. Her questions have helped me to become more independently active in that I now know how to ask myself the kinds of questions that Marla might ask me. Without Marla's help, I probably would not be as far along in my job search as I am now and would still be far from finishing my degree. Thanks, Marla!
Paul D, high school teacher

Marla helped me work with each issue as developing life skills and emphasized personal responsibility.

In working with Marla, I received practical organizing and planning techniques, inspiration and empowering suggestions. Through our work, I clarified my goals, identified communication issues, fuzzy planning and established personal accountability. Marla helped me work with each issue as developing life skills and emphasized personal responsibility. Marla is an excellent coach and compassionate, encouraging mirror. I recommend her without any reservations.
Fred Brandt, business consultant

I truly don't know where I'd be without Marla.

Within my first few weeks of college, I had already felt extremely overwhelmed. The classwork was much different from what I was used to during high school. There wasn't anyone directly looking out for me and I just needed someone wise to talk to and help me get through this stressful time.

Throughout the last five months, Marla and I have worked on a wide variety of skills. Some of these are how to think through decisions, how to speak up for myself and how to manage my time better. Most importantly, she is someone whose opinion I completely trust. It is easy to open up to her and she is among the best listeners I have ever met. …her professional manner offers the client the perfect kind of support: someone who really cares about what you're going through yet is able to offer an outsider's view.

After discussing whatever is on my mind, whether it be a goal that I wanted her to help me work on or a problem I needed her to help to figure out, Marla always asks me to reflect on what I've learned and what I'm going to do differently in the future. This shows the client that Marla's work is not superficial- it is not just finding the quick and easy solution but how I can do things differently in my life so I won’t have this problem down the road.

She is a life coach, someone who inspires you to be the best person you can be. I could not recommend working with Marla more or place such a high value on her effect on my life at college.
Josh L., college student

Marla has been tremendously helpful in keeping me “on track” with important and complex projects during a time when I cannot afford to get lost.

At the same time, she is helping me realize that while avocational goals are important, so too are relationships and personal fairness. In our last meeting, Marla helped me begin to tackle a lifelong misapprehension of time and how to gain control of it.

More important than problems solved is my greater confidence in addressing problems and trying to solve them, rather than simply quitting because no resolution is apparent.

Marla offers a non-judgemental, objective appreciation for the large and small difficulties and success that are not apparent to myself, and a way to order these things so that they can be confronted and appreciated, respectively.

She has helped me see what appear to be insurmountable problems as just small impediments. Specifically, she has goaded me into making phone calls to people that I didn’t think would want to hear from me, and to do everything to keep communications channels open.

She has also helped me by keeping a focus on the challenge I feel in organizing and constantly reviewing how to strike a balance between letting my schedule get out of control and focusing too intently on it and thus losing track of the bigger picture.
Josh D., writer

Marla’s help was astonishing.

Marla was my second coach, the first one did not really help me, so I was kind of skeptical. After only a few calls she seemed to have me figured out pretty well.

She called me on empty promises, pushed me just enough never too much, and together we came up with tools that actually work and which I actually use. She has an uncanny ability to know how far she can push me without ticking me off. Thanks to that I never felt pressure to lie about or excuse what I had done or how I was doing.

After living with ADD for many years I started believing that I was lazy, stupid, and crazy. Marla was able to convince me that I was none of these by helping me solve small issues and get a track record of success. Once those things were accomplished, many of the pieces sort of fell in to place.
Marc D., software engineer

Marla’s support was critical in reducing anxiety after receiving the diagnosis of ADD.

Marla’s support was critical in reducing anxiety after receiving the diagnosis of ADD. She imparts information in a warm, impartial, professional manner. Marla is always on your side and willing to work at your pace. At the same time, she challenges you to think about your daily decisions and how they impact your life, and your options for change, should you desire it. Marla helps you identify, prioritize, and focus on weaknesses in a nonjudgmental way and plants the seeds of ideas for you to follow up on, either immediately, or in the future when you’re ready.

Above all, she compliments your strengths.
Jane F., parent of a student