About Patrick
Patrick Martinez is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 12 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, or major life changes. He talks plainly and offers steady support as people take the first steps toward feeling better.
He draws on simple, practical approaches rather than jargon. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals instead of a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
He pays attention to respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping conversations direct and useful. Patrick works with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, addiction, and career stress. He also supports people coping with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and challenges linked to adoption or caregiver roles.
His focus includes both emotional coping skills and concrete problem solving. In sessions he uses client-centered conversations along with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches. He helps clients notice patterns, try small changes, and practice new habits between meetings.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when someone wants clearer steps forward. People can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth process. Patrick works to tailor each plan and adjust pace according to what the person needs.
He aims to make therapy feel like a practical, helpful part of everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
Patrick often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. This approach helps people who need a supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide on next steps. He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect moods and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals, comfort, and what shows results in early sessions. That process can include trying a few techniques and keeping the ones that feel most useful.
Online therapy with him is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and let people use therapy when and how it fits their routine.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English