About Martinie
Martinie Franks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in Missouri and brings a calm, practical approach to conversations about everyday struggles. Martinie focuses on clear steps people can take to feel steadier and more hopeful.
She believes each person knows their life best and builds on those strengths. Sessions emphasize listening first, then working together to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Clients often discuss relationship friction, low self-esteem, changes in life roles, and feelings of depression. Martinie uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the client's perspective and pace.
Mindfulness techniques and parts of dialectical behavior therapy are offered for managing intense emotions and reducing overwhelm. Conversations include practical skills for communication problems, control issues, and social anxiety. She helps people practice how to ask for what they need and how to set boundaries without feeling guilty.
Work on forgiveness, guilt, shame, and finding life purpose is offered in a step-by-step way. Sessions can happen through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Martinie supports people who want steady, gradual change and who appreciate collaborative planning.
The focus is on usable strategies and small, measurable progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. Online sessions using this approach center the client's priorities and move at a comfortable pace, which helps when addressing anxiety or life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Those skills translate well to brief check-ins in text or chat and to longer conversations on video where skills can be role-played.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps tailor online work to each person's needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Missouri, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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