About David
David Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience in New Mexico. He focuses on practical help for common and painful problems like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and ADHD. He aims to meet people where they are and speak in clear, direct terms so parents and individuals can quickly understand next steps.
He draws on approaches that pay attention to relationships and patterns. Sessions look at how past attachments shape current behavior and how thoughts influence mood and actions.
Background and approach
He uses straightforward conversation and structured strategies to help people manage symptoms and make day-to-day changes. David has worked with adults and children affected by serious mental health concerns and problematic substance use. He has led domestic violence programs and is familiar with the aftermath of interpersonal harm.
That experience informs how he addresses safety, boundaries, and rebuilding trust in relationships. In therapy he personalizes the plan to fit each person’s needs. Some people want concrete tools to manage anxiety or ADHD-related challenges.
Others need space to process grief, trauma, or complicated family history. He combines listening with practical steps and regular check-ins. Starting can feel hard, and David acknowledges that courage.
He supports clients through scheduling, goal-setting, and deciding which therapeutic tools will help most. Sessions can include short-term coaching or longer work depending on what the person wants to accomplish.
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and patterns. In sessions this often means talking about important relationships, noticing recurring dynamics, and trying different ways of relating to reduce conflict and loneliness.Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens closely, helps people name their goals, and supports them as they make choices. This approach is useful for building self-understanding and confidence when facing changes or stress.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and to develop strategies for managing ADHD-related challenges in daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help identify which methods fit a client's goals, preferences, and day-to-day situation, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and ongoing life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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