About Marta
Marta Taveras is an LCSW with seven years of clinical experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Marta aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and supported for each person she meets.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about worries and life changes. Marta listens for patterns that keep problems going and works with clients to try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and practical, with clear steps to practice between meetings. Marta uses approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts and strengthen their motivation to reach goals. She blends tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to match each person’s needs.
This can help with sleep problems, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, and coping after separation or loss. She also offers support around parenting, blended family issues, caregiving stress, substance concerns, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT matters. Marta can help people who are navigating life purpose, forgiveness, guilt, or feelings of emptiness alongside mood concerns like bipolar or ADHD-related struggles.
Sessions are available in English and Spanish. Marta works with clients to set clear, realistic goals and to track small steps of progress. The approach is collaborative and focused on practical change so people can see what works for them.
Using CBT and Motivational Interviewing Online
Marta commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT involves setting small, practical experiments and tracking how new responses affect mood and anxiety. It is often used for worry, sleep problems, and mood shifts.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to explore a person’s own reasons for change. This approach helps people clarify goals, resolve mixed feelings, and build internal motivation before trying new strategies. It can be useful for substance concerns, lifestyle changes, and staying engaged with treatment.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Marta will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. That plan can shift over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video mirrors an in-person conversation, phone can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and busy schedules while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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