Martha Fenimore , LCSW

Martha Fenimore is a licensed clinical social worker with 39 years of experience. She focuses on helping people untangle patterns that hurt their wellbeing and find clearer, more manageable ways forward.

Martha uses straightforward conversation to identify what gets in the way of a person’s happiness. She listens for patterns that show up in relationships, work, and family life. She helps people name emotions like anxiety, depression, anger, grief, and shame so they feel less stuck.

Her work often addresses stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps clients dealing with parenting strain, postpartum depression, mood disorders including bipolar, ADHD, and career-related changes. Martha is experienced with LGBTQ concerns and multicultural issues as they affect day-to-day life.

Martha draws from a mix of approaches. She focuses on the person in the room, uses thought-and-behavior tools to shift unhelpful patterns, and looks at how past relationships influence current feelings. She also uses brief solution-focused steps to build momentum and parts-based ideas to help people understand inner conflict.

Sessions are offered from Florida and are conducted in English. Martha works with people across a wide range of life stages and experiences, including those processing adoption and foster care histories, abandonment, codependency, and family-of-origin problems.

Her style is practical and warm. She aims to help people notice small changes that make daily life easier and more meaningful.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. Online sessions allow that same attentive, person-focused conversation to happen by video or phone, so the therapist can follow the client’s concerns and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses clear exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Those tools work well online through guided worksheets, between-session practice, and brief check-ins by text or chat. Internal Family Systems looks at parts of a person that hold different emotions or roles and helps them relate to those parts with more compassion; it can be explored by talking through experiences and using imagery or written prompts during remote sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martha will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That choice can change over time as progress is made and new needs come up.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions fit better when a camera isn’t needed or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, arranging plans, or sharing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work during life transitions.