About Martina
Martina Cisneros helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or changes in their lives. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience and works from Texas. Martina aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can feel steadier and more in control.
She uses clear, everyday conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and building healthier routines for sleep, work, and relationships.
How Martina works
Martina draws on tools that encourage acceptance, present-moment awareness, and skill-based practice to reduce distress. Her background includes long-term work with depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar concerns, and issues tied to identity and LGBT experiences. She also supports people facing parenting strain, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and complicated grief.
Martina pays attention to how culture and life transitions shape coping and choices. Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track small changes as they happen.
She values straightforward feedback and adjusts methods to fit each person’s needs. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, dancing, and outdoor activities like camping and kayaking. Those interests help inform a down-to-earth style that aims to make sessions feel like a practical step forward.
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What Martina works with
The areas below are the ones Martina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can reduce avoidance and help with stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Martina will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She uses a mix of acceptance, mindfulness, and skill-based strategies and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and messaging or live chat suit brief updates and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work through life transitions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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