Nuala Martinez

As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I enjoy helping clients work towards reaching their personal goals and equipping them with the tools possible for continuous growth. Reaching out for help is brave and courageous, and I commend you for taking the first step.  

I personally struggle with anxiety, so I can understand the toll it can take on your mental and physical health. I like to connect with my clients by validating and empathizing with their experiences and go at the their speed by meeting them where they are at emotionally.  I believe Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the best interventions to reduce symptoms of anxiety, because if you can change your thoughts, it will lead to changing your emotions, which will lead to changing your behaviors, and will ultimately lead to a more manageable, peaceful life experience. 

EMDR helps people that have experienced trauma in their past, by reprocessing those harmful memories, so that they are "filed away in the brain's filing cabinet," instead of being ever present and causing maladaptive behaviors that can result in symptoms of depression, anxiety and more. 

At times sessions will be educational and goal driven, or sometimes they will just be organic. I always allow the client to sit in the driver's seat during sessions, while I sit in the passenger's seat, helping to empower and validate, while staying focused on solutions.