About Martha
Martha Higgins uses collaborative, evidence-informed therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. Martha speaks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She combines acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive and emotion-focused work. That mix helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values.
How Martha works
Sessions often include skill practice, noticing patterns, and setting small, manageable goals. Martha pays close attention to attachment and relationship patterns. She helps people untangle family of origin issues, commitment worries, communication problems, and codependency.
She also supports those dealing with abandonment, bonding concerns, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. People come to her for help with depression, anger, grief, compassion fatigue, and career stress. She also works with attention challenges, body image concerns, guilt, shame, and impulsivity.
Martha uses straightforward language to help people understand what keeps a problem going and what to try next. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Martha aims to teach tools clients can use between sessions.
She focuses on building resilience and clearer relationships rather than quick fixes.
Martha lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Martha works with
The areas below are the ones Martha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can reduce avoidance and support steady progress through life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions, teaching concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety or depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Martha will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they try tools, review what helps, and adjust the plan over time to stay practical and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for relationship and emotion work. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other obligations.
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