About Martin
Martin Godek is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 20 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, depression, and addiction. He aims to make the first contact easier and to support steady steps forward.
He creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment. Sessions are meant to help clients name what matters, make small changes, and build clearer routines.
Background and approach
He listens to what each person wants and adapts the work to those goals. Martin blends approachable, evidence-based methods. He uses client-centered work to follow the client’s lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and trauma-focused ideas when past events are part of the problem.
Mindfulness skills and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are added when emotion regulation or impulsive behavior is present. In practical terms, therapy with him looks like setting clear goals, trying small experiments between sessions, and tracking what helps. He also addresses relationship patterns, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and career-related strain in focused conversations.
Clients can expect straightforward talk, skill-building, and collaborative planning. Martin supports people who want to reduce symptoms, repair important relationships, or find more stability after painful life events.
How Martin’s Approaches Work Online
Martin blends client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and following the person’s pace, making room for whatever matters most in a session. Cognitive behavioral therapy uses simple, practical exercises to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense feelings and improving communication, which can be useful for anger, impulsive behaviors, and relationship difficulties. Together these approaches give options to try and adapt during therapy.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, suggest starting points, and adjust methods based on what works. Clients and therapist check progress together and change course when needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer short, focused check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English