Marta Taveras, LCSW

Marta Taveras is an LCSW licensed in New York with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Marta speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions straightforward and understandable.

Marta creates a calm space where people can talk without judgment. She listens for what matters most and helps clients break down problems into smaller, workable pieces. Sessions often focus on learning new skills and testing small changes between meetings.

Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change and to build momentum toward goals. Marta adjusts these approaches to each person’s situation and pace.

Marta has experience addressing a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and fatherhood challenges, blended family stress, caregiving strain, substance use concerns, sleep problems, and anger. She also helps with issues tied to identity, such as LGBT concerns, HIV/AIDS, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose.

People who prefer clear guidance and small, actionable steps tend to do well with her style. She supports practical problem solving and honest conversations about what’s working and what isn’t. To start, she asks about current stresses and what someone hopes to change.

CBT and Motivational Interviewing for online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and then try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by giving clear tools to test new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing focuses on drawing out a person’s own reasons for change and boosting motivation through collaborative conversation. It often helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Marta will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She adapts techniques to fit the individual and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels useful and realistic.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and text or chat can fit into a busy day or provide ongoing brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person care.