About Martha
Martha Kilgore is a licensed counselor (LPC) in Alabama with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing grief, depression, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and family stress. Martha focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She aims to make the start of therapy feel manageable and hopeful. Martha sees each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on. She offers straightforward conversation and skills people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
That may include ways to handle difficult emotions, improve communication, and set boundaries at home or work. Her background includes long-term clinical practice across a range of life challenges. Martha has supported people through loss, caregiver stress, and health-related transitions such as cancer or aging concerns.
She also addresses issues like codependency, abandonment, and blended family dynamics. Therapy sessions combine clear strategies and emotional work. Martha draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and from acceptance-based approaches to help people live by their values.
She also uses emotionally focused and dialectical methods to improve relationships and emotional regulation. People connect with Martha for help managing life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, or persistent low mood. She guides each person in choosing practical goals and steps that fit their daily life.
The focus is on steady progress and usable tools rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches offered online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with depression, grief, and coping with ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships, helping people improve communication and repair connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life to choose methods that fit. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health concerns. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from another location, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins or written reflection, and text-based messaging makes it easier to share thoughts between appointments. These options help match the format to the moment and make consistent care easier to maintain.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English