Martha "Marti" Stany
Practical therapy for stress, trauma, and relationships
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Illinois, Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Martha
Martha "Marti" Stany uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, relationships, and sexual concerns. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW and also holds a CSW credential. Marti communicates plainly, listens closely, and focuses on concrete steps that make everyday life feel more manageable.
Her work emphasizes building skills and noticing patterns that keep problems stuck. She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people make choices that match their values even when emotions are difficult. Marti brings about 10 years of clinical experience and has helped clients with grief, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and work or career stress.
She also has experience with intimacy-related and LGBT issues, attachment concerns, and relationship and communication problems. Her background includes supporting people who face trauma and abuse. Sessions focus on practical tools, clearer communication, and rebuilding trust in relationships.
Conversations often include skill practice, goal setting, and strategies to manage intense feelings. The tone is collaborative and nonjudgmental, with attention to each person's priorities. Marti practices from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English.
She offers a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Information about cost notes a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approach-driven online care for relationships and healing
This therapist draws on several well-established methods to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and address sleep or eating concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, teaches skills for living by personal values while tolerating difficult feelings, which can help with stress, grief, and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and communication, and it can be useful when working on intimacy, trust, and family-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will assess a persons needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue work between meetings using messages or brief check-ins. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice communication, and support progress in day-to-day situations.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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