About Martinie
Martinie Franks is a licensed clinical social worker who uses client-centered care to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, self-esteem concerns, and depression. She brings 15 years of experience and focuses on practical steps that make daily life more manageable. She believes people know their own stories and already have strengths to build on.
In sessions she listens closely and helps clients identify small, doable changes. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people through life changes and improving motivation and confidence. She also addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Social anxiety and questions about life purpose are part of her practice too.
Therapy often includes learning tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. Mindfulness practices and strategies from dialectical behavior therapy are used to manage intense feelings in the moment. Motivational interviewing helps people find what matters most and take steps toward change.
Clients can expect clear goals and straightforward techniques they can try between sessions. Franks encourages steady progress and adapts the pace when life gets busy or stressful. She is licensed in multiple states and works with people across Missouri.
Approaches that fit online sessions
Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person, not the technique; the therapist listens, reflects, and helps clients set goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers short skills for handling strong emotions and improving communication during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about which methods to use are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps build connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a quick break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or step-by-step practice possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Missouri, Arkansas
- Languages
- English