About Yovanna
Prof. Yovanna Martinez helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical so parents and adults can find clearer steps forward.
She speaks English and Spanish and works from Florida, drawing on 25 years of professional experience. Her style centers on listening first. She treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Conversations and plans are shaped around what someone actually wants to change, not a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and change behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and strengths.
Mindfulness techniques can help with stress, sleep, and anxiety by training attention and slowing racing thoughts. Prof. Martinez has worked with a wide range of concerns.
These include stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, career problems, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also addresses related issues such as parenting strain, relationship communication, and coping with life changes. In sessions she combines practical tools with supportive conversation.
That might mean setting small, manageable goals, practicing new ways of thinking, or trying short mindfulness exercises. Her aim is to help people make steady, useful changes they can keep using after therapy ends.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's priorities and strengths. In plain terms this means conversations shaped around what the client wants to change and steady support as they try new strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges because it teaches concrete skills and small experiments to try between sessions.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose approaches that match a person's goals, comfort level, and daily demands. That means adjusting pacing, trying short behavioral tasks, or adding mindfulness practice when it seems helpful so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online formats make regular work easier to fit into life. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick coaching, progress updates, and reminders between sessions. Together, these options provide flexibility so clients can keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maryland
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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