Vanessa Martz
Compassionate counselor with practical tools
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Vanessa
Vanessa Martz is a licensed professional counselor who brings 28 years of experience to her work. She combines years of life experience with clinical practice to support people facing relationship, parenting, and family concerns. Her style is warm and direct, and many clients note a motherly presence in sessions.
She integrates talk therapy with practical tools so people can manage day-to-day stress and big life changes. Her background includes service in the military and a long career in higher education and science.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her sense of discipline and resilience. She has also navigated loss, violence, foster parenting, adoption, and blended family life. Those experiences inform how she talks about grief, trauma, and family transitions.
Vanessa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pairs CBT with grief-focused work and draws on client-centered and solution-focused techniques as needed. Mindfulness practices and emotionally-focused ideas also appear in her sessions when they fit a person’s goals.
Clients can expect a therapist who will invite reflection about spiritual beliefs when it is relevant to therapy. She notes that if someone does not want to address spirituality, another therapist might be a better match. Overall, her aim is to help people find peace with their choices and to renew a sense of joy in life.
Vanessa works from Alabama and conducts sessions in English. She holds the Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor credential - LPC - with license number AL LPC LPC01770 and draws on her long career to help people facing stress, anxiety, parenting difficulties, grief, and related issues.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Vanessa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her work. CBT teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional patterns that affect close relationships, making it helpful for connection and communication concerns.She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused ideas when they fit a person’s needs. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and meeting the person where they are. Solution-focused techniques aim at small, achievable changes that add up over time. Vanessa views choosing an approach as a team effort and will help figure out what fits best based on goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people connect from home, fit sessions around busy schedules, and continue work during life changes. The goal is to make it easier to access consistent support while using methods that match each person’s needs.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
Next step
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