About Martha
Martha McKenzie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a long history of supporting adults and teens through life’s hard moments. She uses a warm, conversational style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges related to ADHD and addiction. Martha can offer sessions in English or Spanish and draws on 25 years of practice in Georgia.
Her approach blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques to help people find motivation and make sense of difficult experiences. Sessions focus on clear goals that the client and therapist write together. Martha’s path to social work included returning to school after major life changes.
That experience shapes how she connects with people facing relationship shifts, career stress, or parenting strains. She describes her style as casual, caring, and interactive, aiming to build trust and honest conversation. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, eating issues, bipolar disorder, and anger.
Additional focuses include blended family issues, communication problems, domestic violence, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Martha pays special attention to the ways ADHD can show up later in life, especially for women. Martha holds LCSW and CSW credentials, listed as GA LCSW CSW004237, and brings two and a half decades of clinical experience to each session.
Her work emphasizes practical strategies, coping skills, and steady support while clients pursue their goals.
Online approaches that fit your life
Client-centered therapy starts by listening to what matters most to the client and following their lead in each session. It helps when someone needs empathetic support and wants to shape goals based on their own priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives tools to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can help with emotional regulation, stress, and symptoms of ADHD by building small routines of awareness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martha will collaborate with the client to decide which methods to use based on their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. This means trying things out and adjusting plans together as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever the client is; phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or fewer visual demands are needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or to fit a short session into a busy day. These options help people maintain momentum and keep therapy consistent with their schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Spanish