Anna Ward Martin, LPC

Anna Ward Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, family concerns, and depression. Her approach centers on listening closely and helping clients discover strengths they already have. In sessions she mixes practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with client-centered and narrative approaches. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments, and tell their story in ways that open new choices. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach skills for emotional regulation and grounding. Anna emphasizes working alongside each person rather than prescribing one path. She aims to support clearer communication, address control issues, and work through guilt, shame, and forgiveness. She also helps people who want more self-love, a clearer sense of life purpose, or relief from panic attacks and mood shifts. Her background includes a decade plus of clinical work in outpatient settings. Over that time she has supported people with substance use concerns and helped them set practical goals for recovery and daily life. She frames progress as a series of real-world changes rather than quick fixes. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability. Sessions are offered in English and conducted via phone or video when arranged.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people can find their own answers; online sessions use that same attentive conversation style to help clients clarify goals and next steps.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online sessions can include work on thought records, step-by-step experiments, and skill practice between meetings.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) brings practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be taught and practiced in remote sessions and reinforced with real-life homework. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can start in the first few sessions and shift as progress and challenges appear.

Confirm the session formats before you book since the biography notes phone and video options and excludes chat. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. Talk with the therapist about how to structure sessions so they fit your schedule and goals.