Janet Martinez , LMHC

Janet Martinez is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 18 years of experience to sessions. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.

Janet encourages clients to talk about what matters to them without judgment. She focuses on immediate concerns like sleep problems, anger, addictive behaviors, and parenting strain while also addressing deeper issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, and identity questions. Conversations are practical and centered on the person in front of her.

Her work blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means she listens first, then helps people test new ways of thinking and acting. She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when people want to examine values, purpose, and close relationship patterns.

Janet has supported people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image concerns, and career transitions. She offers help for intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, and coping with life changes like adoption or aging family members. She also works with people facing bipolar disorder or attention challenges and can incorporate coaching-style goal work when helpful.

Sessions are offered in Florida and to international clients. Janet aims to create a respectful space where people can speak honestly, learn new skills, and find clearer direction for the next steps in their lives.

How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a supportive relationship. In online sessions Janet aims to create a space where people feel heard and can name their priorities before moving to skills or problem solving.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include concrete exercises, mood tracking, and practice items to use between meetings for issues like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills can be practiced in short, focused online meetings and reinforced with messaging between sessions when appropriate.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Janet works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short reflections or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to use skills in everyday life.