About Martha
Martha "Marti" Stany is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people feeling overwhelmed. She draws on ten years of clinical experience and works with concerns such as anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and questions around sexuality and identity. Marti centers sessions on the person's experience and goals.
She uses straightforward talk, listening, and gentle challenge to help people clarify what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Her work often blends strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to manage unhelpful thoughts and reconnect people with values. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect current stress and connection.
Marti also brings skills from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when emotions feel intense. She has experience supporting clients through grief, addiction-related concerns, career and self-esteem struggles, and challenges with sleep and eating. She holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and the CSW credential and practices in Wisconsin.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video, phone, chat, or text-based formats to fit different schedules and needs. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, with a focus on practical steps people can use between sessions. The work often starts with small, doable changes and builds toward clearer values and steadier coping.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to shift them, which can reduce anxious thinking and improve sleep and routines. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try methods that fit. That collaboration can mean mixing approaches so the plan matches each person's situation and priorities.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy into a busy life easier. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier during a short break. Chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, planning, or when writing thoughts down feels easier. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations while working toward clearer coping and values-based change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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