Sonia Rodrigues-Marto , LPC, LMFT

Sonia Rodrigues-Marto is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in New Jersey. She brings 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, family conflict, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Sonia focuses on clear, practical steps and supports people who want to make changes in their lives. She frames clients as the experts on their own story and builds on existing strengths.

Her approach draws from therapies that emphasize values, emotional connection, and present-moment awareness. In sessions she uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Client-Centered ideas to strengthen communication and emotional bonds.

Sonia has worked with clients on adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and divorce or separation. She also supports people facing commitment questions, infidelity, and fatherhood issues, along with feelings of guilt, shame, isolation, or life-stage transitions like midlife crisis.

Sessions tend to focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and building routines that match a client’s values. Sonia helps people set achievable goals and tries to keep work-focused and readable between sessions. Her style aims to be direct, warm, and respectful of each person’s pace.

People come to Sonia for help coping with life changes and repairing relationships. She combines structured techniques with empathetic listening so clients can try small changes and see what works.

Online approaches that focus on values and emotion

Sonia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed actions toward those values. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes because it focuses on willing action rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behavioral experiments. CBT helps with anxiety, communication problems, and coping strategies by breaking concerns into manageable steps.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Sonia will work with each person to choose or blend methods that match their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as needed so the work stays practical and relevant.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual connection for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.