About Janet
Janet Martinez offers calm, steady support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or life transitions. She meets each person where they are and focuses on practical steps that can ease daily functioning and restore a sense of control. Janet’s approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping clients feel understood and heard.
Janet is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of professional experience in Florida.
Background and approach
She speaks English and Spanish and helps people with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, compassion fatigue, addiction, and ADHD. She also supports people facing issues like parenting strain, career challenges, body image, and chronic illness. Her work centers on listening carefully and creating a space where clients can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Janet draws on client-centered methods to prioritize each person’s goals, while using cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions. Janet also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when relationship questions or questions about meaning arise. She adapts what she offers to fit the person in front of her instead of following a single formula.
Sessions are practical, goal-oriented, and paced to match each client’s needs. Fluent in Spanish, Janet can work with English- or Spanish-speaking clients and accepts international clients. She aims to make therapy approachable and useful, helping people build skills they can use after sessions end.
How Janet’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where the client sets the goals. Online sessions let Janet follow each person’s pace and priorities, whether the work is about relationships, grief, or daily stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence behavior and mood. In online work this becomes practical homework, short exercises, and step-by-step skill building to reduce anxiety or manage depressive thinking.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers tools for handling intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills fit well into remote sessions where Janet can teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication techniques that clients practice between sessions.
Janet will help clients decide which approach or combination makes sense. She treats the choice as a shared project, adjusting methods based on a person’s goals, comfort with different formats, and progress over time.
Online therapy can be very flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or practicing skills between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity during transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish