About Sarah
Sarah Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and stress from major life changes. She has worked in inpatient settings, psychosocial rehabilitation, substance abuse programs, correctional facilities, and independent practice.
That range gives her practical insight into different kinds of life disruption and recovery. She uses clear, direct language in sessions and focuses on what people want to change in daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-based tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation and tolerating distress.
She values the therapeutic relationship and adjusts plans to match each person's needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with room to address trauma, anger, relationship or parenting stress, and work or career concerns. Clients often get a mix of skill-building, practical problem solving, and space to process painful events.
Sarah focuses on helping people find coping strategies that fit their life. She works in English and accepts international clients for online sessions.
How Sarah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following what matters most to the person. Online sessions use that same stance to let the client set goals, share struggles, and shape the pace of work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches people to notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; in remote sessions this often includes short practice tasks between meetings and simple worksheets shared during video or text sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, which can be taught in short skill-building segments during phone calls, live chat, or video.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are asked about preferences for pacing, homework, and session style so treatment stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing school, work, or caregiving demands.
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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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