"When you decide to participate in the process of psychotherapy you chart a course for your own well being. Sometimes you successfully navigate into blue skies and steady winds. At other times, the fog is so thick you inch your way forward, hoping--praying that you will remain on course. Whether the day is hard, or easy, you continually learn, grow and achieve your goals." -- Judy Martin, MFT

A Comment on Her Work by a Colleague:

"Judy Martin has worked with adults, couples and children for thirty years. In addition to her academic and professional expertise, 20 years of meditation practice informs her work. Many of the problems which bring Judy's clients to therapy are survival-based reactions to unhealthy early childhood relationships. Empowered within the safe, empathic, therapeutic relationship she creates, clients develop capacity to see these haunting behaviors for what they are--habits--learned, reinforced, practiced behaviors. As old habits weaken and die new habits can emerge and become second nature. When this occurs, life can be filled with more joy and satisfaction.

"Judy is well versed in a wide variety of researched and effective techniques and methods that accelerate progress and help to create lasting change. They include EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, systematic desensitization, stress reduction, and mindfulness practices. Such resources help to create a total change: physically, emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally.

"Calling upon her personal and professional experience with troubled teenagers, Judy authored: "Wake Up Call." She has a special passion for working with adolescents and their families. Skillfully utilizing advanced training in EMDR, hypnosis, and body centered therapy, Judy facilitates profound client recovery from trauma."

Helene Roos, Psy.D. HDA Consulting