About Suzanne
Suzanne Martinez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or major life changes. Suzanne speaks plainly and helps people make practical changes that fit their daily lives.
She uses clear, goal-focused conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions often include learning new ways to handle worry, practicing different reactions to conflict, and building routines that support better sleep and eating.
Background and approach
Suzanne also offers coaching-style guidance for career concerns and life transitions. Her background includes long experience in independent practice and work with university counseling programs. She has written and taught about personal well-being and psychological growth for many years.
That experience shapes a pragmatic, skills-oriented approach in session. Suzanne combines several evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs. She pays attention to attachment and family-of-origin patterns and helps people untangle codependency or caregiving stress when it affects functioning.
Her work also addresses issues such as trauma, grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue. People who choose Suzanne usually want practical tools and straightforward conversation. She aims to help people set clear goals, try manageable steps, and notice what changes.
The focus is on small, steady progress toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take practical steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It is useful for chronic worry, life transitions, and low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and managing everyday stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches that fit. Sessions can blend methods as progress and new issues appear, and the plan is adjusted collaboratively over time.
Online therapy with Suzanne is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full conversational work and emotional processing. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style feedback, and ongoing practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent even with a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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