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Vanessa Martinez

Compassionate, practical therapy for real-life challenges

LPC Colorado

Experience
3 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Parenting, Self esteem
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Languages
English
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About Vanessa

Vanessa Martinez is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado who blends evidence-informed methods to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Background and approach

She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy while also drawing on acceptance and commitment and client-centered approaches to tailor care to each person's circumstances. Her practice emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassionate support as she works with people facing parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, trauma and grief, mood and attention-related issues, and other life stressors.

With three years of professional experience, Vanessa focuses on creating individualized plans that reflect a client’s goals and day-to-day realities. She pays attention to areas such as self-esteem, intimacy-related struggles, career concerns, and compassion fatigue, and addresses additional topics like attachment, body image, postpartum and pregnancy-related concerns, OCD symptoms, and social anxiety.

Vanessa frames therapy as a collaborative process, offering practical strategies and emotional support to empower clients as they pursue meaningful change and improved wellbeing.

How Vanessa’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy



Vanessa frequently draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, offering concrete exercises and experiments that can be practiced between sessions to reduce worry, avoidant habits, and mood symptoms. She also integrates acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and learning ways to act in line with those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise; this approach can be especially useful for life transitions, grief, and chronic stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic work and is handled collaboratively. Vanessa seeks to understand each person’s goals, preferences, and daily demands, and then tailors techniques and pacing so therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single method.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for scheduling and different modes of interaction. These options make it easier to access consistent support while balancing work, family, or other obligations, and they allow Vanessa to share worksheets, teach skills, and check progress between synchronous sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Vanessa works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship and family issues, trauma and grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style?
She combines cognitive behavioral therapy with acceptance and commitment and client-centered techniques, using practical skill-building alongside values-based and supportive work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Vanessa has three years of professional experience working with clients on mood, anxiety, trauma, and life transition concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LPC credential and is licensed in Colorado with licence number CO LPC LPC.0021503.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Vanessa provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are therapy costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyParenting issuesSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsDivorce and separationGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Mindfulness TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

3+ years

Licensed

Colorado

Languages

English