About Raquel
Raquel Ralat Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and brings five years of professional experience to her work. She provides therapy in both English and Spanish to adults facing common life stresses.
Raquel focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes. She also helps people who struggle with attachment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, eating and food-related concerns, family of origin issues, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
Raquel frames therapy as a collaborative effort between therapist and client. Her style is strengths-based and compassionate. She treats clients as the experts of their own lives and helps them notice the skills they already have.
Sessions emphasize practical tools, steady pacing, and developing insight that fits each person’s goals. Raquel creates a culturally responsive, non-judgmental space where people can talk through difficult experiences. She aims to help clients build resilience and clearer ways to cope with stress and relationship strain.
Short-term goals and longer-term growth are both welcome in her work. To begin, she asks people to share their story at a comfortable pace and then together they plan what to work on next. The focus is on tangible steps people can take between sessions to feel better and manage daily demands.
Online approaches and practical access to care
Raquel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and processing difficult experiences. One common approach she uses helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse at a pace the client can handle, helping people make sense of painful memories and reduce their impact on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Raquel partners with each person to figure out which techniques match their goals, preferences, and current needs. She adjusts plans as progress is made and as life circumstances change, so the therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick tools between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and stick with the changes they want to make.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish