Patrick Martinez
Supportive counselor for life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Patrick
Patrick Martinez is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 12 years of experience. He speaks plainly and aims to make first steps easier for a worried parent. He meets people where they are and treats them with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
He works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, motivation, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He also addresses issues like addiction, grief, intimacy-related problems, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Background and approach
This range lets him adapt to many common struggles parents and adults face. In sessions he tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. That means practical strategies and clear goals instead of one-size-fits-all advice.
He uses tools from several approaches to fit the situation rather than follow a strict script. Patrick blends client-centered work with cognitive and behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. He helps people learn skills to manage emotions, change patterns, and build daily routines that support well-being.
He also draws on motivational interviewing when clients want help finding momentum for change. He describes therapy as a partnership. His role is to listen, offer perspectives, and suggest approaches that a person can try between sessions.
For many, that mix of listening and concrete steps makes progress feel achievable.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns, and helps set goals that matter to the client. This approach is helpful when someone wants a respectful space to talk through parenting stress, relationship strain, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It breaks larger issues into small steps and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used when someone wants tools they can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for regulating strong emotions and handling conflict. It teaches practical techniques like distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clear communication. That work can be useful for people dealing with intense reactions, relationship conflicts, or chronic stress.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. He will adjust the plan as progress and needs change so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, follow up between meetings, and access care from different locations. Many people find the range of formats helps them stick with the work and use strategies in real time.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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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
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
Next step
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