About Martha
Martha "Marti" Stany is a licensed clinical social worker who blends somatic awareness with talk-based therapy. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people dealing with trauma, sexuality, relationships, and mental health struggles. Marti works in Wisconsin and holds LCSW and CSW credentials.
Her sessions often focus on how the body holds stress and memory. She uses simple body-centered exercises alongside practical conversation to help people calm their nervous systems.
Background and approach
This can make it easier to talk about painful memories, improve sleep, and reduce anxiety. Marti also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and guide small behavioral steps. She pairs that with attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive strategies are added when helpful to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. She has long experience supporting LGBTQ clients and people healing from abuse. Marti helps with intimacy, sexual concerns, relationship problems, and blended family stress.
She also assists with grief, addiction, ADHD, mood concerns, and caregiver burnout. In sessions the tone is practical and nonjudgmental. People can expect straightforward tools, paced breathing and movement cues when needed, and conversations that honour their choices.
Starting therapy begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Somatic work focuses on how sensations in the body reflect stress, trauma, and emotional states. In online sessions this may look like guided breathing, gentle movement prompts, and checking bodily signs to help reduce tension and make it easier to process hard memories.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps toward those goals. It uses practical exercises and language work to reduce the impact of painful thoughts and build committed action.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and communication. It helps people notice repeating patterns, try new ways of relating, and repair connection where possible.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and life situation. Adjustments are made over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use brief check-ins between longer appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic exercises and ACT skills to each online format so people leave sessions with practical steps they can try at home.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English