Martine Baron, LCSW

Martine Baron is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in New York. She greets each person with openness and a respectful, strengths-based stance. Martine emphasizes practical steps and steady support for people who want change in their lives.

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, parenting strain, career questions, family tensions, and grief. Additional areas she helps with include abandonment, attachment issues, caregiving stress, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, fertility concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.

Martine draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered methods and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when these approaches fit a person's needs. Her style is practical and collaborative - she listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps toward them.

Her background includes trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and an ecological perspective that considers the many parts of a person's life. Martine is comfortable incorporating faith-based techniques when requested by a client.

People who choose her can expect respectful listening, plan-focused work, and steady encouragement. Sessions aim to help a person recognize strengths, practice new habits, and move toward a more satisfying everyday life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Martine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different behaviors; CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses client-centered therapy that prioritizes listening, empathy, and the person's own goals to guide each session. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are brought in when needed to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Martine will listen to current concerns, discuss which methods may help, and together with the client choose strategies and tools that make sense for their goals and values. She adjusts techniques as progress happens and as needs shift.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, or travel.