About Martina
Martina Cisneros is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable and practical.
She creates an affirming, culturally aware space that respects each person's story. Conversations focus on real problems and real steps - improving communication, managing strong emotions, and rebuilding routines that support everyday life.
Background and approach
Martina pays attention to identity and multicultural concerns when they matter to a person’s healing. Martina blends several proven approaches to tailor sessions to what a person needs most. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and mindfulness tools to steady attention and reduce reactivity.
Dialectical behavior ideas also appear when people need practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions move at a practical pace and focus on skills you can try between meetings. Martina also supports people facing parenting stress, caregiver strain, sleep problems, and recovery from trauma and loss.
She aims to help people reconnect with purpose and build small changes that add up. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, cooking, dancing, skiing, camping, and time with family and grandchildren. Those interests inform a grounded, life-centered approach to therapy.
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Martina often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small actions that align with those values, which can help when life feels stuck.Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. Martina will work with each person to shape sessions around their goals, preferences, and what feels useful in practice. She adapts techniques as needs change and checks in about what is or isn’t working so therapy stays collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for interactive skill work and fuller conversation, phone works well for a check-in or when bandwidth is lower, live chat is useful for shorter focused exchanges, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting based on what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
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