About Yovanna
Prof. Yovanna Martinez helps people facing stress, anxiety, loss, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 25 years of clinical experience to each session.
People who choose her can expect respectful, straightforward conversations focused on their goals. She uses a mix of practical methods to address problems like depression, substance use, trauma, and sleep troubles. Sessions are shaped to the person - conversations, goal-setting, and skills practice happen at a comfortable pace.
Background and approach
The emphasis is on small, actionable steps that fit everyday life. Martinez holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and also lists MD and LCPC credentials. She practices in Florida and works with people coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, career issues, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include ADHD, grief, bipolar challenges, and identity concerns within LGBT care. Her approach draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That combination lets her adjust to someone who needs skills for mood regulation or a brief plan to move past a crisis.
Sessions can include talking through difficult memories, rehearsing new ways to communicate, or practicing grounding and breathing tools. She aims to make the process collaborative so goals stay practical and measurable. Prospective clients can expect calm, direct guidance and attention to what helps them most.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects understanding, and helps clarify goals so conversations feel relevant and respectful.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more useful patterns. It often includes simple exercises and homework that people can use between sessions to manage anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills that reduce reactivity to stress and difficult memories. Short breathing or attention practices are common tools that can be used anytime to calm the body and mind.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are expected, and progress is checked collaboratively so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. This flexibility helps fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maryland
- Languages
- English, Spanish