About Zachary
Zachary Martin is a licensed clinical social worker who uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. He names calmness and clear listening as central to his style and aims to make therapy feel usable for day-to-day life. Zachary earned a Master of Social Work and holds a California LCSW license (CA LCSW 100493).
Before graduate school he worked in adult residential settings for people with developmental disabilities.
Background and approach
That early work shaped his interest in steady, respectful support rather than quick fixes. His background includes foster and adoption work, child welfare investigations, and inpatient hospitalization. He has worked on interdisciplinary teams and in outpatient therapy settings.
Those roles gave him a view of many factors that contribute to emotional struggle and behavior patterns. In sessions Zachary draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and existential ideas. He also uses mindfulness, narrative approaches, and motivational interviewing when they fit a person’s needs.
He focuses on helping people notice patterns, try small changes, and build skills that actually help them feel better. Zachary has five years of clinical experience working with issues such as trauma and abuse, addiction, relationship problems, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem. He aims to create a comfortable space where people can speak openly and work toward realistic goals.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead and builds a plan from their priorities, which works well in conversational online formats. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when paired with clear take-home exercises.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative process helps match methods to what actually helps in daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit moments of support into a busy day and to check in between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English