Amaranta Penate-Marty , LPC

Amaranta Penate-Marty is a bilingual licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings 11 years of practice to therapy. She frames her work around helping people change the thoughts that shape their feelings and actions. Amaranta speaks both English and Spanish and connects with people from North American and Hispanic backgrounds.

She focuses on common life struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and coping with major life changes. She also helps people address trauma and abuse, parenting and family concerns, relationship and communication problems, and issues around self-esteem and body image. Compassion fatigue and career stress are part of her usual caseload as well.

Amaranta uses practical approaches that help people see and test new ways of thinking. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, narrative techniques, and solution-focused methods. These tools are adapted to each person rather than applied the same way to everyone.

Her style is straightforward and warm. She aims to give acceptance and calm in sessions while offering clear skills to manage emotions and behaviors. She believes counseling is for people who want change, not just for those who feel broken.

Amaranta has experience working across cultural and language differences. That background shapes how she discusses family dynamics, cultural expectations, and the stress that can come from navigating more than one culture. She invites clients to begin with a short matching process to see if her approach fits their needs.

Therapeutic tools adapted for online care

Amaranta uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear steps to test new ways of thinking.

She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques, which teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT-style skills can help people manage intense emotions and improve how they communicate under stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Amaranta discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as they progress. She collaborates on what to try first and checks in regularly about what is helping.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth sessions and learning skills together. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.