About Suzanne
Suzanne Martinez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in Illinois. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Suzanne helps people clarify what they want and take practical steps toward it. She focuses on building on strengths and shifting habits that get in the way.
Sessions often involve talking through current problems, learning small skills to handle emotions, and setting doable goals. Suzanne uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs rather than one fixed plan.
Her background includes longterm clinical work and teaching about personal well-being and growth. That experience shapes how she guides clients through relationship and communication struggles.
She also brings experience supporting people with trauma, grief, addiction-related concerns, and challenges tied to caregiving or blended families. Suzanne works with people on issues such as self-esteem, career questions, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating struggles, and coping with major life changes.
She can also help with ADHD-related coping, compassion fatigue, and problems that follow separation or divorce. Her approach is practical and aimed at small, steady improvements.
Clients who choose Suzanne can expect a calm, goal-focused process. She helps set clear steps and checks progress along the way.
For people in Illinois seeking a therapist who combines long experience with straightforward tools, she offers a steady, experienced presence.
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, supportive relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build clarity and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing concrete alternatives to reduce symptoms and improve functioning.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan if something is not working. Many people find a mix of approaches works best and the therapist will guide that selection together with you.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during brief breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, share quick updates, or have shorter conversations when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into everyday routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English