About Ana
Ana Martinez is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She has 14 years of experience helping people who are facing relationship strain, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Ana focuses on practical, relatable steps so people feel steadier sooner. She frames clients as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Ana helps people name what matters and then tries small, doable ways to move toward those goals.
Her work often centers on repairing connection and building confidence after loss or big transitions. She talks through how patterns affect daily life and offers strategies to shift them.
This can include reworking routines, testing new behaviors, and practicing clearer communication. Ana draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward measurable change.
She aims for straightforward language and practical tools rather than jargon. The focus is on skills people can use between appointments.
Over her 14 years, Ana has supported many people through times of uncertainty and change. She encourages patience with the process and celebrates small steps forward.
Her California license is LMFT, which denotes her professional standing as a marriage and family therapist.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Ana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach involves identifying patterns that keep problems going and testing small behavior changes to create different outcomes. This helps with relationship patterns, confidence, and everyday routines.Another approach emphasizes grief work that helps people name their loss, process emotions, and develop ways to remember and move forward. That work often combines listening with specific tasks to try between sessions, like memory projects or stepped exposure to difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals and preferences. Together they will check what helps and adjust the plan over time so it fits the client’s needs.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well with lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English