About Nancy
Nancy Martinez is a licensed therapist in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, family conflict, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks English and Spanish and brings five years of clinical experience to her work.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and build trust, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Nancy aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few meetings.
Phone sessions are her preferred format because they are often easier to schedule. Video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging are also available for different needs and situations.
People often choose a shorter live chat for quick check-ins or a phone call for deeper conversations. Nancy treats concerns related to abandonment and attachment, communication problems, blended family issues, and multicultural stressors.
She also supports people dealing with impulsivity, control issues, self-harm thoughts, intellectual disability considerations, and the search for life purpose. She asks new clients to use a short matching questionnaire to get started.
From there, scheduling is arranged week to week to match changing availability. Nancy emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people feel heard so they can consider change at their own pace. This approach is useful for relationship worries, self-esteem work, and processing family stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks large problems into smaller steps and tries straightforward experiments to test new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with stressful situations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. They will adapt methods as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions are often simpler to schedule and can work well when a quieter space is available. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style notes, or days when writing feels easier than speaking.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish