Suzanne Martinez, LMFT
Illinois · 25 years in practice
Suzanne Martinez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in Illinois.
License and registration
- LMFT, Illinois
- 166000614 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1982857405 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Suzanne
Suzanne Martinez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering practical guidance for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Suzanne uses straightforward, compassionate methods so clients can make steady progress.
Suzanne often starts by listening to what matters most to each person. She helps clients clarify goals and notice the small habits that get in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at building useful skills for coping, communication, and day-to-day functioning. Her work draws on a mix of approaches, including hypnotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused ideas. She blends these tools to match each client’s situation instead of following a single fixed protocol.
Over two decades she has taught and written about personal well-being and psychological growth. She has provided therapy in independent practice and in university counseling settings in Illinois. That combination shaped a practical style that emphasizes real-world changes.
Suzanne also has experience addressing a wide range of concerns such as addiction, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, intimacy issues, and trauma and abuse. She works with people coping with career stress, caregiving fatigue, blended family challenges, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Her goal is to help clients move toward a clearer vision for their lives.
Suzanne encourages small steps that build confidence and lead to lasting change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Suzanne lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Suzanne names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify personal values and take small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to address habits, stress responses, or mental blocks that keep people from reaching their goals. It can be combined with other approaches to support behavior change. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients feel understood and can explore solutions at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Suzanne will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time, using feedback from the client to refine what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow continuing care from different locations.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Suzanne commonly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, ADHD, parenting and many other life challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and compassionate, combining listening with hands-on tools from several approaches to support daily coping and longer-term growth.
How much experience does she have?
Suzanne has 25 years of professional experience providing therapy in Illinois settings including independent practice and university counseling.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an Illinois licensed marriage and family therapist with professional practice located in Illinois.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Suzanne?
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