Janet Martinez, LMHC

Janet Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 18 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported. Her work often addresses grief, trauma, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, and issues connected to aging and geriatric challenges.

Janet focuses on creating a calm, accepting space where people can share what’s on their mind without judgment. Sessions are practical and person-centered, with an emphasis on what feels most useful for each individual. She draws on straightforward tools to reduce overwhelm and restore daily functioning.

Her approach blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when the conversation calls for exploring meaning, closeness, or identity. These perspectives guide short-term problem solving and longer-term work on patterns that keep causing pain.

Janet has supported people dealing with caregiver burden, chronic illness, body image and self-esteem concerns, and the stresses that come with aging. She also helps clients with parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment-related struggles. Language options include sessions in Spanish when preferred.

People who choose Janet can expect direct listening, clear options for next steps, and collaborative goal setting. She encourages questions about the process and will work with each person to build tools that fit their everyday life.

How Janet’s approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following each person's goals. Online sessions using this approach center conversations on what matters most to the client and on practical next steps that fit daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions CBT can include setting concrete practice tasks, tracking mood or sleep, and reviewing what worked between meetings.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Skills training and short coaching-style conversations can be adapted to an online rhythm to help with distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and effective communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet will collaborate with each person to decide whether client-centered listening, CBT skill building, DBT skills, or a mix best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the therapy plan as flexible and revisits it together as progress unfolds.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow concise check-ins when life is hectic. It also permits scheduling that matches work, caregiving, or medical appointments without requiring a long commute.