Martina Cisneros
Nurturing guidance for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Martina
Martina Cisneros is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of personal challenges. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where parents and caregivers can talk about stress, grief, or relationship patterns without judgment.
Martina speaks plainly and helps people figure out practical next steps they can try between sessions. Her approach blends several evidence-based methods to meet each person where they are.
Background and approach
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and take small committed actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns that keep problems stuck. Martina also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions feel collaborative and on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, skills for managing strong emotions.
She brings mindfulness practices into sessions to reduce stress and improve focus. These tools are chosen to fit the problem at hand and the person’s preferences. Clients can expect straightforward goal-setting and skill practice.
Martina supports work on parenting stress, sleep problems, addiction concerns, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also addresses topics such as adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and communication problems. Licensed in Texas and California as an LCSW, she combines practical skills with an empathetic, down-to-earth style.
Her work is focused on helping people build coping skills and clearer paths forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters most to them and take small actions that align with those values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting the thoughts and habits that keep problems going and testing new behaviors to change daily life. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Martina listens to a person's goals and preferences, then suggests techniques to try. The choice of methods is collaborative and can shift as needs change during therapy.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for busy parents and caregivers. Video calls provide face-to-face connection when travel is hard. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging let people check in between talks or use formats that feel easier. These options increase flexibility for fitting therapy into real life while using the chosen therapeutic tools.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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