Carissa Martinez, LMHC

Carissa Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings ten years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, low mood, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Carissa works in both English and Spanish and focuses on meeting people where they are.

She seeks to treat every person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs, not a fixed formula. Conversations and goals are adapted to what matters most to the client.

Carissa has a background supporting people with trauma and abuse, as well as those coping with low self-esteem and difficulties with motivation. She also helps people facing issues related to abandonment, attachment, body image, and problems with communication. Other focus areas include substance concerns, eating and food-related issues, gender dysphoria, and infidelity.

Her work includes helping clients think through relationship challenges, navigate separation or divorce, and manage impulsivity or compulsive patterns. Carissa is familiar with the dynamics that can appear in kink and alternative sex cultures and aims to provide a nonjudgmental space to talk about those topics.

If someone is ready to begin, the next step is to use the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire. After that, scheduling is arranged according to the therapist's availability.

Approaches and how online work can help

Carissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in practical ways. One approach focuses on understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect so people can test small changes and notice different results; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress. Another common focus is on working through trauma and abuse by building safety and pacing difficult memories so people regain a sense of control and calm. These descriptions explain the kind of activities a person might do in sessions, such as rethinking unhelpful thoughts, practicing breathing or grounding, and planning steps to handle stressful situations.

Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit best based on their concerns, goals, and preferences. That means checking in and adjusting the plan as therapy progresses rather than assuming one size fits all.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options when booking since specific formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people meet with a licensed professional from different locations within the same state, making it simpler to keep appointments around work, school, or family obligations.