About Martina
Martina Cisneros is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the challenges of everyday life. She offers calm, steady support for people wondering what to do next and for those juggling big transitions or identity questions. With 21 years of practice, Martina focuses on practical skills and honest conversation.
She listens for what matters most to each person and works with them to set concrete goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include ways to handle overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and rebuild self-worth. Her work often addresses relationship patterns, intimacy concerns, addictions, compassion fatigue, and career stress. Martina also supports people coping with trauma, loss, parenting strain, and ADHD-related struggles.
She aims to make therapy relevant to everyday life instead of abstract talk. Martina combines several evidence-based approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses strategies that build emotional awareness, teach coping tools, and encourage values-driven steps.
The focus is on small, sustainable changes that add up over time. Clients describe a practical, collaborative process focused on real-world problems and strengths. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, cooking, dancing, skiing, and time with family and grandchildren.
Her interests often inform a warm, down-to-earth style in sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Martina will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals, pace, and preferences. She mixes methods as needed and reviews progress so adjustments can be made over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls approximate a face-to-face session, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, travel, and varying comfort with being on camera.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
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