About Suzanne
Suzanne Martinez helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She explains things plainly and meets people where they are. Suzanne is an Illinois Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, with 25 years of clinical experience.
She blends practical skills with personal reflection to help people take manageable steps toward change. Clients often come for help with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship concerns, or trouble sleeping and eating.
How Suzanne works
Suzanne also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and career or identity questions. She includes additional focus areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family issues, caregiver stress, and first responder concerns. Her practice draws on several well-known approaches.
Suzanne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take committed action. She applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior that maintain distress. Client-centered and emotionally-focused methods guide gentle, empathic conversations about feelings and connection.
Sessions are aimed at clear, practical goals. Suzanne helps people build skills for coping with life changes, improving communication, managing anger, and tending to compassion fatigue. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and forgiveness work in straightforward, step-by-step ways.
She has spent many years teaching and writing about psychological growth and wellbeing. Suzanne brings that experience into sessions, offering both short-term coaching-style work and longer-term therapy depending on each person’s goals. Her practice is based in Illinois and she conducts sessions in English.
Suzanne lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Suzanne works with
The areas below are the ones Suzanne 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
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clear about what matters to them and take steps toward those values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing concrete techniques to change them. It often helps with anxiety, mood challenges, sleeping and eating difficulties, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and a nonjudgmental stance so people can explore feelings and find their own path forward.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Suzanne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan so it fits practical needs and personal style.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video allows for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not needed or bandwidth is limited. Messaging and live chat support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style work, or supplemental contact between full sessions.
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