About Sarah
Sarah Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with 12 years of practice. She takes a down-to-earth approach and focuses on making therapy feel accessible and relevant to everyday life. She uses client-centered work to build trust and understand each person's story.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds tools for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal skills. Sarah has worked in inpatient settings, psychosocial rehabilitation, independent practice, substance abuse treatment programs, and correctional facilities.
Background and approach
That range of settings informs how she tailors care to different situations and stressors. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, parenting concerns, relationship and family problems, self-esteem, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, and depression. She also addresses more specific issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress.
In sessions she aims to help people feel heard and to develop practical skills. Treatment plans are individualized and can mix approaches to match a person's needs and goals. She also works with people on coaching-style goals like career transitions and coping with life changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful space where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead; it helps people feel understood and shapes the goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings are intense.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and comfort level. Plans may combine elements from different approaches to better fit what someone needs at a particular time.
Online therapy lets people connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full sessions that resemble in-person meetings, while phone calls can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting tools between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or family commitments and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English