About Marta
Marta Taveras is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with seven years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Marta meets people where they are and aims to make the first step feel doable and clear.
She creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space for talking through worries. Sessions center on practical ideas and small changes that fit into daily life.
Background and approach
Marta listens for what matters most and helps set simple goals to move forward. Marta often uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people when motivation feels mixed or unclear.
These approaches guide conversations rather than dictate them. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and blended family challenges, caregiver stress, substance use concerns, anger, sleeping problems, and questions about life purpose. She also addresses topics such as HIV/AIDS, grief over infidelity, and feelings of guilt or shame.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and Marta adapts to each person’s pace. The focus is on realistic steps and honest conversation, so people leave with tools they can try between meetings.
How Marta’s Approaches Work Online
Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify their own reasons for change and find personal momentum. It uses respectful conversation to draw out what matters and how someone might take the next step, which is helpful when motivation feels mixed.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions. It guides practical exercises that change thinking and behavior, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Marta will listen to your concerns and goals and then suggest methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can try techniques and adjust plans based on what works best for you.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work on issues easier to keep up. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be shorter and fit into a break, and live chat or text messaging lets people check in between meetings. These options help people access care around work, family, and daily routines without changing the focus on concrete steps and problem solving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, Spanish