About Carissa
Carissa Martinez is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 10 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Carissa speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy clear and straightforward for people starting this work.
Her approach is practical and respectful. She listens first to understand what matters most and then shapes conversations and goals to fit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - clients and Carissa set priorities together and track small steps forward. Carissa often helps people manage strong emotions and rebuild confidence after painful events. She supports those dealing with attachment or abandonment worries, body image or eating concerns, and the fallout from infidelity or separation.
She also has experience with substance concerns, domestic violence, and needs related to gender and sexual identity. Therapy with her emphasizes skills you can use between sessions. Expect clear explanations, straightforward strategies, and gentle encouragement to try new ways of coping.
Carissa frames setbacks as part of learning rather than failure. For people who prefer Spanish, she offers sessions in that language. Her practice uses several online formats to fit busy schedules.
To get started, a short matching questionnaire helps find the right schedule and format so work can begin quickly.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Evidence-based techniques focus on teaching skills and changing patterns that maintain distress. One common approach emphasizes practical coping skills for anxiety and stress - learning breathing and grounding exercises, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and practicing small behavioral steps. This can reduce overwhelming feelings and make daily life easier.Another approach concentrates on addressing trauma and relationship wounds by improving emotional awareness and safety in relationships. Work here often includes naming triggers, strengthening boundaries, and learning communication habits that feel more connected and less reactive. These methods help with symptoms stemming from abuse, attachment concerns, and difficult breakups.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made, choosing what fits the person’s life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to get this work done. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or check in quickly during busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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