About Austria
Austria Martinez is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 13 years of experience. She offers a calm, straightforward style to help people manage stress and anxiety and to navigate difficult life changes. She focuses on trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and career or life transition issues.
Austria helps people talk through painful experiences and find practical steps to feel steadier day to day. She speaks English and Spanish.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical techniques that help change unhelpful thinking with a warm, accepting stance. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered principles guide how she listens and responds so people feel respected while they sort things out.
Austrian also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and mindfulness to help people live by their values even when strong feelings show up. She adapts what she uses to each person's needs and goals rather than following a fixed script. Sessions are aimed at making coping skills usable in real life.
Austria supports people working on attachment and communication problems, caregiver stress, guilt and shame, immigration-related stress, mood concerns including post-traumatic stress, and questions about life purpose and finances. Her style emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and steady, compassionate support.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Austrian uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change thought patterns that increase anxiety or keep them stuck. CBT sessions often include concrete exercises and step-by-step behavioral experiments that work well over video or phone.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. ACT practices such as values work and simple acceptance exercises can be guided in live sessions and reinforced through short between-session activities.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is done together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. That collaboration helps determine which combination of CBT, ACT, or client-centered listening will best match a person’s needs.
Online formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual coaching of skills. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when a written approach feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while tailoring how support is delivered.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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