About Martina
Martina Cisneros is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and major life shifts. She brings calm, practical support for day-to-day struggles and deeper emotional work. Martina aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
Martina uses plain conversation and active listening to learn what matters to each person. She combines problem-solving with emotional processing so clients can handle stress and rebuild trust in themselves.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating. With 21 years of experience, Martina draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavior techniques, and mindfulness in ways that fit each person. She pays attention to cultural context and identity as part of healing.
That means noticing how background, roles, and life events shape what someone is feeling now. Martina works with adults on issues such as intimacy and sex-related concerns, addiction, parenting stress, career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and coping after loss or trauma. She also helps with attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family stress, caregiving burdens, and communication problems.
Clients will find a therapist who mixes practical tools with compassionate listening. Martina encourages gradual change and realistic goals. Her practice aims to help people feel more capable, connected, and able to manage life’s ups and downs.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and choose action that aligns with their values. It can help when someone feels stuck by worrying or avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness, which supports calmer responses to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Martina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process guides whether sessions focus more on acceptance, skills practice, or awareness exercises so therapy fits each person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual coaching. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or quiet moment and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, note-taking, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on goals and practice new skills in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English