About Zachary
Zachary Martin uses a client-centered approach to help people feel heard and understood. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with five years of clinical experience in outpatient therapy. Zachary draws on straightforward, practical methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction concerns.
He also helps people facing relationship and intimacy issues, career stress, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. His work includes support for those dealing with trauma and abuse, anger, and life changes like divorce or caregiving burden.
How Zachary works
He pays attention to family of origin patterns, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues tied to adoption or foster care. Zachary blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening so people can test new ways of thinking and behaving. He incorporates existential ideas to tackle big questions about meaning and direction, and uses mindfulness to help manage stress in the moment.
Motivational interviewing is used to support changes in behavior such as substance use or other addictive patterns. His background includes work in adult residential settings, foster and adoption services, child welfare investigations, inpatient hospitalization, and interdisciplinary teams. That variety shapes a practical outlook on how life circumstances affect mental health.
In sessions he aims for a calm, respectful space where clients can speak plainly about what’s hard. To begin, Zachary asks about current concerns and goals, then together with the client chooses approaches that fit. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging while practicing in California.
Zachary lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Zachary works with
The areas below are the ones Zachary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy is focused on listening and understanding. The therapist creates space for people to describe what matters most and then follows their lead to set goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. Existential therapy helps when life feels empty or uncertain by encouraging reflection on values, meaning, and personal responsibility to move forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify which methods feel most helpful. That might mean using CBT skills one week and existential questions the next, or adding mindfulness practice to support coping in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins or when someone prefers written reflection. These options increase flexibility, help fit therapy into busy schedules, and make ongoing support more accessible for people living in California or who need different session styles.
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