ABOUT ME


Marla Delong, M.A.


Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Marla has been counseling individuals, marriages, families, and groups for over 30 years. She specializes in helping others find healing and transformation in their relationships with God, others and themselves. Marla’s passion is to see men and women discover what is holding them back from being all they were created to be. She then walks with them on the journey of discovering better and more practical ways to live in a new level of freedom and purpose. Marla has worked locally and internationally as a conference speaker, retreat leader and corporate trainer on many diverse topics such as relationship development, boundaries, marriage enrichment, discipleship, and the enneagram. She has been married to her husband, Keith, for over 30 years and they have 3 children.




ABOUT THE COURSE

My heart has been to create a class of the material that I use with my clients in my office. I wanted to make it affordable since so many people cannot afford to pay $150 per hour or more to work with a private therapist, but these skills have been proven to transform relationships when practiced daily. This is not a counseling group, but a psycho-educational/coaching class.


Over the course of FOUR weeks (because the first set of videos will drop the week before we actually start meeting), we will dig in and begin to get a new vision of what great relationships look like with yourself and others. Self-awareness is the first skill of healthy relationships. I will teach you skills in every video and meeting that if practiced will take your relationships to the next level. You will learn skills of self-awareness that you may have never even considered. You will be given notes to review, short assessments, and questions for journaling and prompting conversations.

You will learn language to express how you feel and what you are thinking. You will even learn how to figure out what you feeling and learn to label it. Most importantly by the end of our class time, you will know how to clarify expectations in relationships, build trust, and repair relationships when things go sideways! You will have a week to watch the videos before we meet for discussion.