About David
David Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico with 16 years of experience. He focuses on practical, person-focused care for adults dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, bipolar disorder, and depression. David aims to meet people where they are and helps them take small, manageable steps forward.
He uses clear conversation and listening to shape a plan that fits each person. That plan can include working on sleep, eating patterns, anger, grief, or problems with intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also offers coaching-style support for life changes, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. David has long experience with serious trauma and substance-related problems. He has run domestic violence programs and understands the effects of interpersonal violence on daily life.
He has worked with adults and children facing severe mental health challenges and problematic drug use. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Sessions can focus on practical coping skills, changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, or exploring how past relationships affect current life.
He acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the first steps easier to take. David welcomes people who want straightforward support for complex problems. He offers a mix of therapeutic styles to match different concerns and preferences.
Sessions are available through digital formats so people can connect from different places.
How David’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. In sessions this can mean talking about important relationships and noticing how they influence trust, closeness, and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers straightforward tools to test unhelpful thinking and build different habits for anxiety, depression, sleep, or eating problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend ways to proceed. That recommendation is a starting point - the plan can shift as needs change and progress is tracked.
Online formats provide practical flexibility. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or a hands-free option is better. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to build therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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