About Suzanne
Suzanne Martinez focuses on clients seeking practical tools to manage stress, strengthen relationships, and build clearer life direction. With an emphasis on tapping into existing strengths, she helps people clarify goals and develop skills that support psychological growth and day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
She brings 25 years of clinical experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) working in Illinois. Her background includes independent practice and work in university counseling settings, plus teaching and writing about personal well-being and skill development.
Suzanne pairs a strengths-based stance with evidence-informed techniques to address concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, trauma, addiction, and challenges related to self-esteem, career, parenting, sleep, and eating. Clients benefit from a collaborative focus on identifying obstacles, learning coping strategies, and creating a clearer vision for life.
Suzanne integrates approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Existential perspectives to tailor care to each person’s needs while emphasizing growth, resilience, and practical change.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values, making it useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, empathic space where people can explore feelings and find their own solutions, which supports self-esteem and relational concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills for managing mood, worry, and day-to-day stressors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Suzanne will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then draw from these evidence-informed approaches to shape a tailored plan. This flexible method allows adjustments over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face from different locations, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide alternatives when video is not convenient. These formats increase flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to maintain continuity of care across life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English