Josh D.

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-judgmental, objective appreciation for the large and small difficulties and successes that are not apparent to me, 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.