About Marcus
Marcus Martin is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Wisconsin. He uses a straightforward, respectful approach that centers the person's own goals and strengths. Marcus aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck take practical steps forward.
Marcus draws on nine years of counseling work to help people with stress, anxiety, anger, and addiction concerns. He also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, and the everyday strain of family problems and relationship conflict.
Background and approach
He pays attention to issues like attention challenges, life transitions, and questions about purpose. In sessions he focuses on clear, usable strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding.
Solution-Focused methods help set short-term goals and track small changes that add up. Marcus works in a client-centered way, listening first and shaping plans around each person's values and pace. Motivational Interviewing is part of how he helps people weigh options and find their own motivation for change.
The tone is practical and supportive rather than prescriptive. People who want steady, goal-oriented work tend to do well with his style. He encourages small experiments between sessions and regular check-ins about what is or isn’t working.
If someone is ready to start, the next step is a simple matching and scheduling process through the site.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person's own strengths to set meaningful goals. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to make sense of stress, relationships, or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, anger, and habits someone wants to shift. Finding the right approach is collaborative. Marcus will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust plans based on what helps. The process is about experimenting together and choosing tools that feel useful. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or transportation limits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face; phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or when a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for shorter exchanges, ongoing encouragement, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats make it easier to fit regular therapy into everyday life and keep momentum between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English