About Martha
Martha McKenzie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty-five years of experience. She offers a warm, conversational style and speaks both English and Spanish. Martha focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate other life challenges.
She draws on client-centered practices to place the person's goals at the center of each session. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness to help people notice thought patterns and build practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Martha has worked across a range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, ADHD, and eating-related struggles. She has experience supporting people through career changes, parenting stress, and coping with life transitions.
She also notes additional focus areas such as communication problems, codependency, and issues related to aging. Her background includes a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from Florida State University. She earned her Georgia LCSW and has provided clinical care in community and personal settings.
Martha emphasizes empathy and practical problem solving in sessions. She offers brief coaching-style work when helpful, and she involves clients in setting clear goals that feel meaningful. Martha aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions and to support steady progress toward the goals they set together.
How Martha’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered work focuses on your priorities and what matters most to you. In sessions Martha listens and helps shape goals together so therapy fits your life and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify upsetting thoughts and test different behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress. It’s practical and often includes exercises to try between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase focus, which can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.The therapist will help you decide which approach or mix of approaches feels right. That choice is collaborative - based on your goals, preferences, and what you want to change. Martha adapts methods over time and checks in regularly to refine the plan.
Online formats let you work in the way that fits your schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits your day. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, brief check-ins and written tools you can review later. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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