Austria Martinez, LMHC

Austria Martinez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with more than 13 years of professional experience guiding people through stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, career challenges, and major life transitions. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can share thoughts and feelings and work toward practical solutions and greater emotional balance. Martinez uses an integrative approach that emphasizes cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking, client-centered principles that prioritize empathy and self-exploration, and trauma-informed practices that attend to safety and pacing in healing. She also incorporates mindfulness strategies to support emotional regulation and present-moment awareness.

Working in both English and Spanish, Austria tailors care to each person’s identity, goals, and cultural context, addressing issues such as attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, communication and boundary problems, grief, work-related strain, mood concerns, and post-traumatic stress. Her orientation is flexible and collaborative, focused on building resilience, clarifying values, and developing realistic coping skills. Austria acknowledges that pursuing change takes courage and offers steady support to help clients move toward a more fulfilling and balanced life.