Martha Kilgore, LPC

Martha Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage grief, relationship strain, depression, addictions, and family conflict. She aims to make the first step feel doable and to support people as they work toward a more satisfying life.

Martha centers sessions on the person's own strengths and perspective. She treats clients as the expert on their story and helps them build practical ways to cope with stress and anxiety. Conversations are aimed at clearer communication, steadier mood, and manageable daily routines.

Her work often addresses caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, and aging and geriatric issues alongside more familiar problems like self-esteem and codependency. She also helps people navigate abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and blended family dynamics.

Martha draws on a mix of therapeutic methods to meet different needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to identify values and guide action, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to improve connection in close relationships. She also uses Client-Centered and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when helpful.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person's comfort. Martha listens for practical changes that fit everyday life and supports clients in trying new skills between meetings.

Approaches that guide online care conversations

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clear about what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions where motivation or direction feels unclear.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete strategies for changing unhelpful thinking and building routines that reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed so sessions match the client’s needs.

Confirm the current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make scheduling easier and fit therapy into a busy day, such as using shorter check-ins during a work break or avoiding travel time to appointments. They can also allow for a mix of conversational work and practical homework between meetings, helping people apply new skills to everyday situations.