About Martine
Martine Baron is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 20 years of practice experience. She greets new clients with warmth and a straightforward, hopeful message: taking the first step toward change matters. Martine focuses on clear, respectful listening and helps people find practical ways forward.
She uses a strengths-based approach to set realistic goals and to identify steps people can take between sessions. Martine aims to build a reliable working relationship that gives people motivation to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, parenting strains, and career questions.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, caregiver stress, and life purpose concerns. In sessions she blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work. She also draws on techniques meant to help with intense emotional experiences and trauma-related material.
Martine is comfortable discussing faith when clients request faith-informed support. Her style is open-minded and compassionate, with a focus on practical problem solving. She listens first, then helps people try small, manageable changes that can make daily life feel easier.
Martine encourages patience - change often unfolds over time rather than all at once. Martine works with adults in New York and accepts people who live outside the U.S. as well. Sessions are offered in English and available in several online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How Martine’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to what matters most to the person in front of her. It helps people feel heard and decide on goals that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions shape feelings and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for handling strong emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.Choosing a method is a collaborative process. Martine will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences, and together they will try approaches that match those needs. Methods can be mixed and adjusted over time as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and messaging let people send notes or updates between sessions and can be useful for brief reflections or reminders. These options give flexibility to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English