About Martha
Martha "Marty" Mauppin is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 16 years of clinical experience. She trained at the University of Maryland and has provided care in a range of settings. Marty aims to offer steady, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety.
She has worked in homeless outreach, in-home therapy, schools, and office settings. Those roles exposed her to many kinds of problems, including depression, bipolar disorder, substance use, and trauma.
Background and approach
Marty also has experience helping people cope with life changes, parenting concerns, and difficulties with attention and concentration. Marty draws on several practical approaches to shape sessions around each person's needs. She frequently uses client-centered methods to build rapport and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track small improvements. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, clear goals, and gradual progress rather than quick fixes.
She avoids judgment and encourages honest conversation about what is and isn’t working. People who come to Marty for anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or trauma can expect a mix of goal-oriented tools and space to tell their story. She emphasizes practical steps for coping, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence.
The aim is steady forward movement, one manageable change at a time.
Practical approaches and online options for anxiety and stress
The therapist often uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship that helps people feel heard. This approach focuses on understanding each person's perspective and tailoring support around their priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers hands-on tools for managing anxiety, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and testing small behavioral changes that reduce distress.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and try different methods until a good fit emerges. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to keep and which to adjust based on progress and personal preference.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is enough. Live chat or messaging can suit quick updates, ongoing support between meetings, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options help therapy fit into work, family, or school schedules while keeping focus on practical steps and consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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