Vanessa Martz, LPC
Alabama · 28 years in practice
Vanessa Martz is an LPC with 28 years of experience who brings a long personal and professional history to her counseling.
License and registration
- LPC, Alabama
- LPC01770 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1750649752 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Vanessa
Vanessa Martz is an LPC with 28 years of experience who brings a long personal and professional history to her counseling. She has worked in science, the military, and higher education and draws on those varied experiences when supporting people. Clients have described her as having a motherly manner and a straightforward, compassionate style.
Vanessa offers practical, down-to-earth therapy for relationship strain, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. She helps people talk through parenting challenges, addiction concerns, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years of foster and adoptive parenting, and she speaks from experience about blended family issues and caregiver stress. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral methods and emotionally-focused work to address feelings and patterns. She often uses grief-focused techniques with people processing loss and has experience with trauma-related issues.
Sessions aim to help people make choices that feel right for them and to find more ease in daily life. Vanessa brings a faith perspective to some work and says she will explore spiritual beliefs during therapy; she asks people who do not want that focus to choose a different clinician.
She lives and practices in Alabama and holds an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC). Therapy sessions are available in a range of online formats. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Vanessa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Vanessa names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vanessa draws on emotionally-focused work to help people notice and shift the patterns that keep them stuck in old interactions and painful feelings. This approach focuses on understanding emotions and using them to create different responses in relationships and personal reactions.She also uses client-centered techniques that emphasize listening and building a collaborative, respectful relationship. This means therapy starts with what matters to the person and moves at their pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances and will jointly choose methods that fit. That collaborative planning helps shape sessions and guides what to try next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, writing through a problem, or fitting therapy around a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people dealing with relationship issues, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines attentive, client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods and emotionally-focused work to address feelings and patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 28 years of professional experience across science, the military, and higher education, plus extensive personal experience with foster and adoptive parenting.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor credential (AL LPC) and practices in Alabama.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online therapy.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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