About Martha
Martha "Grace" Marquez is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship and family concerns, and issues like grief, eating struggles, and self-esteem. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.
Grace has worked in varied clinical roles and settings over 21 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in counseling, and she practices as an LMHC.
Background and approach
Much of her work has centered on addictions and related conditions, including codependency and drug and alcohol concerns. In sessions she uses a blend of talk-based and skills-oriented methods. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and acceptance techniques help people build tolerance for difficult feelings and stay connected to their values. She also uses client-centered listening to make room for each person’s experience, and elements from dialectical approaches to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. For relationship concerns she includes practical tools from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce repeated conflicts.
Grace aims to tailor conversations and treatment plans to each person’s needs. She avoids labels that shame people and focuses on strengths and realistic steps. If someone is ready to make a change, she works to support that process with skills, clear goals, and steady encouragement.
Online approaches that teach skills and build connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people live by their values while accepting difficult feelings. It teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts and choose actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems stuck and replaces them with practical strategies to change day-to-day routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage strong feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. From there she will suggest methods to try and adjust them over time so the plan fits the person's needs.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English