Makayla Martin, LISW-CP, LCSW

Makayla Martin is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with five years of experience supporting underserved and vulnerable communities. She combines a warm, compassionate presence with practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and depression, and to navigate life transitions. Makayla works with clients across ages and backgrounds, including young adults and veterans, and addresses concerns such as attachment difficulties, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, workplace stress, and questions about life purpose.

Her practice is informed by a range of evidence-based therapies, and she adapts techniques to match each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. She draws from approaches such as Cognitive Processing Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused CBT, and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to support healing, build resilience, and strengthen self-esteem and self-love.

Makayla holds the credentials LISW-CP and LCSW - respectively Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and offers an empathetic, goal-oriented environment where clients are treated with respect and encouraged to discover practical pathways toward growth.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Remote Healing

Makayla uses Cognitive Processing Therapy to help clients examine and reframe unhelpful thoughts that can follow trauma. This approach focuses on identifying patterns in thinking and gently working toward new, more helpful perspectives, often used when past events continue to shape current reactions.

She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which emphasizes clarifying values and learning practical skills to accept difficult feelings while taking action toward meaningful goals. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by increasing psychological flexibility.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy appears in her toolkit as a way to blend awareness practices with cognitive techniques, helping clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and respond with greater calm and balance.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Makayla works with clients to explore which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work - sessions by video call or phone allow real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging provide flexible ways to check in between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not feasible.