About Martinie
Martinie Franks is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She centers sessions on each person's strengths and helps people take practical steps toward feeling better. She uses client-centered strategies to listen carefully and build trust.
She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage intense emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when people need focus, clarity, and forward momentum.
How Martinie works
People come to her for stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship strain, communication problems, control issues, and coping with life changes. Social anxiety, isolation, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose are also areas she addresses.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. She helps clients set small goals, try new ways of responding, and notice what works. Conversations are paced to each person's needs so steps feel doable rather than overwhelming.
Franks holds LCSW credentials in Texas and Arkansas and practices in Missouri. She focuses on helping people build skills and find clearer ways forward. The approach is patient and down-to-earth, aimed at steady progress over time.
Martinie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Martinie works with
The areas below are the ones Martinie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and build on their own strengths to make changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and coping with intense feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then shapes sessions around those choices. That means trying approaches, checking in, and adjusting the plan so it fits each person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can fit during a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people access consistent care that fits a busy life.
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