Marlo Floyd, LPC

Marlo Floyd is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience in Arkansas. She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, stress, addiction, and relationship and parenting concerns. She writes plainly and listens first, helping people find small, practical steps they can use right away.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening and mindfulness practices. Sessions usually involve talking through recent events, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, and trying new behaviors between meetings. She also uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotions feel intense and EMDR-informed ideas for trauma work.

Marlo emphasizes a strengths-based, compassionate style. She aims to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and repair self-esteem. Her work often focuses on attachment and family-of-origin issues, blended family stress, forgiveness, and caregiver strain.

She brings a practical, commonsense attitude to sessions and will include spiritual or faith perspectives when clients want that. Many clients come for help with anger, intimacy-related issues, career shifts, or complex mood concerns like bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation concerns.

Therapy can include skill practice, mindfulness exercises, and motivational interviewing to support change. Marlo explains ideas in everyday language and helps people set realistic goals they can try between sessions.

How these approaches work online

Marlo uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that increase stress or anxiety and to try new behaviors that change daily routines. CBT often focuses on short-term goals and practical exercises that can be practiced between sessions. She also relies on Client-Centered Therapy which emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client’s priorities; this helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting at a comfortable pace.

When emotions are intense she draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach distress-tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication. These concrete tools can reduce immediate overwhelm and improve relationships, and they adapt well to remote sessions. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose which approach or mix of approaches fits a person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing one path up front.

Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and therapy more flexible. Video allows real-time conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat supports quick exchanges, and messaging lets people reflect and share between sessions. These options help people fit counseling into work, parenting, and caregiving routines.