About Judith
Dr. Judith Josiah-Martin is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing low self-esteem. She supports those wrestling with career questions, compassion fatigue, and related life changes.
Her voice is calm and direct, and she focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. She uses a mix of approaches, such as cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to steady attention, and attachment-based ideas to improve close relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then suggests small experiments to test what helps. Clients often leave with clearer routines and doable coping strategies. Judith centers cultural awareness and respect in her work.
She draws on two decades of practice in Maine to understand how stress and isolation can build up over time. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to each person's values and daily realities. Her background includes supporting people through caregiver strain, addiction concerns, family-of-origin issues, immigration challenges, and coping after disasters.
She also helps with commitment and communication problems, codependency, and feelings of emptiness or shame. That breadth means she can link immediate worries to longer patterns that matter. Dr.
Josiah-Martin aims for clear, usable strategies that fit a person's life. She works with clients to set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track what changes. The pace and focus are shaped around each person's needs and strengths.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying core values and taking small committed steps toward them, even when worry or fear is present; it can help when anxiety gets in the way of daily goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep stress high, useful for panic, chronic worry, and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and awareness so people can step back from racing thoughts and respond more calmly to stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. The process is collaborative, with regular check-ins to see what helps and what to adjust.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the conversation feel more like an in-person visit, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or practicing skills between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or when travel would be difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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