Martha "Marti" Stany
Compassionate clinical social worker guiding meaningful change
About Martha
Martha "Marti" Stany brings a decade of clinical experience to her work, combining evidence-based techniques with a compassionate, client-centered stance.
Background and approach
She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Wisconsin, supporting people dealing with trauma, sexuality and intimacy concerns, mood disorders, stress, and a wide range of relationship and personal challenges. Marti emphasizes collaboration, treating each person as the expert on their own life while offering structure and clinical guidance.
Her practice integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and attachment-informed methods to address issues like grief, addiction, body image, communication difficulties, and coping with major life transitions. Marti also attends to specialized areas including attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, alternative sexual culture, and caregiver stress.
She aims to create a respectful therapeutic environment where practical tools and deeper processing work together to foster resilience and clearer personal values. Sessions are offered through a variety of online formats, and Marti uses her training to tailor interventions to each person’s needs and goals, helping them move toward greater connection, self-understanding, and meaningful change.
Evidence-Based Approaches Adapted for Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages clients to clarify personal values and take committed actions that align with those values while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where greater clarity and purposeful action are desired. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, offering concrete strategies for mood disorders, anxiety, and challenges such as sleep and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns and early attachment experiences to improve current relationship dynamics and intimacy struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Marti collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their goals, preferences, and circumstances. That collaborative stance means techniques can be blended and adjusted over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for scheduling and allow continuity of care across different situations. These options make it possible to access licensed professionals from a range of settings and to choose the modality that feels most practical and effective for individual needs.
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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