Austria Martinez

Austria Martinez is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York with 13 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, career strain, and major life changes.

She focuses on practical steps that help people feel steadier day to day. Sessions often include practices to recognize unhelpful thoughts, build new coping skills, and practice mindfulness. The aim is to make change feel possible rather than overwhelming.

Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered care and attention to attachment patterns. That means she helps clients notice patterns in thinking and behavior while also listening closely and reflecting what matters to each person. Treatment plans are shaped around the client's goals and background.

Austrian often helps people work through issues like abandonment, guilt and shame, communication problems, caregiver stress, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with life purpose, money worries, midlife shifts, immigration-related stress, and relationship boundaries.

In sessions she encourages small, manageable steps and practices that can be tried between meetings. The work is collaborative - clients set goals and she helps track progress and adjust the plan over time.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early connections shape current reactions and closeness. It can support work on communication, boundaries, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to mood and anxiety problems. It provides concrete skills people can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and then suggest an approach or blend of approaches. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Please confirm available session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific online or in-person options. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people continue work from different locations within the same state. The therapist will discuss practical scheduling details and what will work best for each person's situation.