About Sarah
Sarah Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and the daily stresses that come with parenting, work, and major life changes. She practices in Florida and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sarah keeps sessions down to earth and talks plainly about what’s getting in the way of feeling better.
She has worked in inpatient settings, psychosocial rehabilitation, substance abuse programs, correctional facilities, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That variety informs her approach and helps her adapt strategies to different life situations. She draws on client-centered methods and evidence-based tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Sarah often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break cycles of anxious thinking and build stronger coping skills.
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance during intense moments. Her style is collaborative: she and the person in therapy set goals and check progress together. People come to her for anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, addiction concerns, relationship and family problems, and work-related stress.
She also supports those dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, caregiving strain, and transitions like separation or divorce. Sessions are practical and focused on small, manageable steps. Sarah emphasizes real-life practice between sessions so gains carry over into daily routines.
She aims to help people feel more capable of handling what life brings next.
How specific approaches shape online care
The therapist uses client-centered therapy to make sessions focused on each person's goals and experiences. That approach means conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and paced to their needs.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress because it teaches practical strategies people can use between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy is another tool she may draw on for strong emotions and relationship struggles. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress without making things worse.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what they want to try. That shared planning helps focus sessions on achievable steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when they prefer it. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text allow quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. Together these options offer flexibility for busy schedules, travel, and different comfort levels with technology.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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