Martha "Marty" Mauppin , LCMHC

Martha "Marty" Mauppin is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 16 years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Marty also works with issues around grief, self-esteem, intimacy, career changes, and LGBT matters.

Her background includes work in multiple settings such as in-home therapy, schools, office-based care, and programs serving people experiencing homelessness. That range shaped a practical approach to everyday problems. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that clients can try between meetings.

Marty uses client-centered methods that put a person's priorities first and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also draws on solution-focused and narrative strategies to find workable changes and new ways to tell difficult stories. These methods are used to address trauma, relationship patterns, mood instability, and life transitions.

In sessions she aims for a nonjudgmental, compassionate tone. Conversations tend to be direct and focused on what is useful now. Clients can expect a collaborative plan with concrete tools for coping and communication.

Marty recognizes that crises and long-term issues look different for each person. She helps people sort immediate needs from longer-term work, and she adjusts pace to match what a person feels ready to tackle next.

Approaches that translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspective; the therapist listens deeply and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the individual. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life changes because it starts from the client’s priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. It breaks problems into specific patterns and teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, and mood swings, which work well in remote sessions with homework and brief check-ins.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which tools to keep or change based on what is helpful.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for more in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text can support quick updates or brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and busy days while continuing steady progress.