About Austria
Austria Martinez is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing career strain and major life changes.
Austria speaks English and Spanish and aims to make starting therapy easier for anyone who needs it. Her practice draws from several practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Client-Centered Therapy guides the conversation so people feel heard and can explore what matters to them. Austria also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when they fit a person's goals. Those methods offer tools for building emotional balance and noticing values that guide choices.
She adapts methods to what each person needs instead of following a single formula. Sessions tend to focus on clear, usable strategies. Clients work on communication skills, managing intense feelings, and coping after loss or trauma.
Austria helps people set practical steps for career decisions, money stress, and life transitions. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk openly about guilt, shame, isolation, attachment concerns, and other struggles.
The work is paced to each person's comfort and goals.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and commit to small actions that match those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while building a life worth living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a practical approach that identifies unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches new ways to respond to stress and mood problems. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and work-related stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions; it can help with communication, trust, and feelings of abandonment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls let people use exercises and visual tools similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep steady momentum on goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish