About Martha
Martha "Marti" Stany is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who brings 10 years of practice to her work in Wisconsin. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, mood challenges, and ADHD. Marti centers conversations on what matters to each person and keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
She uses a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her. Marti draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and build useful habits.
Background and approach
She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods to support connection, boundaries, and self-understanding. Marti has a background helping people who identify as LGBT and those healing from trauma and abuse. She also works with people facing addictions, career stress, caregiver strain, body image and sexual diversity topics such as BDSM and kink.
Her experience includes supporting those coping with major life changes, divorce, blended family concerns, and complicated family relationships. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions aim to be collaborative - identifying goals, practicing new skills, and testing small changes between meetings.
Marti often blends skills training with reflective work about attachment or past experiences to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. Marti offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She practices in English and works with adults seeking help for the issues listed above.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Marti commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters, act in line with their values, and reduce unhelpful thinking patterns. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when emotions are hard, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Marti treats therapy as a collaboration and will help identify which methods fit a person's goals, preferences, and current challenges. Sessions often combine skill practice with reflective conversations about relationship patterns and past experiences so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a check-in is needed during a work break. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and written skill coaching possible between longer meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- 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
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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