About Armando
Armando Martinez Jr greets clients with a clear message: feeling stuck does not have to be permanent. He focuses on rebuilding everyday strength so people can move through anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, and life transitions. He writes plainly and listens closely so each person sets the pace and goals of therapy.
Armando uses an integrative style that centers the person's own knowledge of their life. He brings together client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and psychodynamic insight to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with time spent on day-to-day coping skills and longer-term patterns. His background includes work across clinical and educational settings in Texas. Armando has experience with inpatient care, school counseling for at-risk students, and independent practice.
That variety informs how he helps people facing trauma, mood challenges, addiction, and relationship strain. He communicates in English and Spanish, which can help when cultural context matters. As an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - he aims to guide people toward clearer thinking and steadier routines.
The focus is on restoring resilience and finding concrete steps forward. In sessions, Armando blends short-term problem solving with deeper conversations about meaning and patterns. Clients leave with practical strategies for daily life and a clearer sense of what changes to try.
He encourages people to take small steps and tracks progress together.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects what matters to the client and follows the client's lead while helping set goals and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include worksheets, small experiments to try between meetings, and targeted skill practice for anxiety, depression, or addiction concerns.
Mindfulness Therapy uses short attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus. These techniques can be practiced during video calls or reinforced with brief audio or text prompts between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that suit those aims, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Collaboration helps match tools to what actually works for daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins and homework support easier. This range helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and keeps continuity when life is unpredictable.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish