About Janet
Janet Martinez is a licensed mental health counselor with eighteen years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, or relationship strain. Janet speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations clear and simple for busy parents and working adults.
Janet draws on straightforward therapeutic methods to help clients cope with symptoms and work toward practical goals. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now, spotting unhelpful patterns, and practicing skills that reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
She can also support people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, addictions, or major life changes. Her approach blends Client-Centered ideas with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. That means Janet listens first, then helps people try small, manageable changes and build emotional regulation skills.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Existential perspectives when people want to explore relationship patterns or life meaning. Janet has experience with many concerns including parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. She is comfortable addressing identity and LGBT issues, body image, and eating or sleeping problems.
People can expect clear, paced sessions that focus on what matters to them. Janet supports clients in English and Spanish and offers multiple ways to connect so therapy can fit into a busy life.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Janet often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means she listens closely and follows each person's priorities while offering guidance. This approach helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most to them.She also brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into online sessions to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice concrete behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT is useful for day-to-day coping and breaking cycles of worry.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are used when stronger emotion regulation or distress tolerance skills are needed. These skills can help with intense feelings, relationship conflicts, and managing urges related to addictions or impulsive behavior.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Janet will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques to try. Together you can adjust the plan as you learn what works best.
Online sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while working on anxiety, stress, and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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