About Marta
Marta Taveras is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of practice as an LCSW in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Marta creates a calm space where clients can speak openly about difficult feelings and concerns.
Her background centers on practical problem solving and clear communication. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Marta works
Sessions often include setting small, doable goals and checking progress together. Marta pays special attention to relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, blended family issues, and caregiving strain. She also supports people facing substance use challenges, hoarding, HIV/AIDS related concerns, and struggles with guilt, shame, or forgiveness.
She offers services in both English and Spanish and adapts her style to fit each person. People can expect a straightforward approach that balances encouragement with specific strategies to cope and change. Working with Marta usually begins by identifying immediate priorities and building steps toward them.
Over time the focus can shift to skills for long-term coping, improved communication, and clearer life direction. The aim is steady progress that fits each person's pace and needs.
Marta lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Marta works with
The areas below are the ones Marta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Marta’s Approaches Work Online
Marta commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot patterns of thinking that make stress or low mood worse and then try different behaviors to change those patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and many everyday worries. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person’s own reasons for change and builds motivation step by step, which can help with substance use concerns, ambivalence about change, or making tough life decisions.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy and happens together. Marta will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Then she adjusts techniques so the work feels relevant and doable rather than sticking to one method.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during a busy day, or working from different locations.
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