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Dr. Martin is a native of Haiti and spent a significant portion of her life in New York City. She is a Nationally Certified and Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri with extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She believes that everyone deserves culturally sensitive and trauma-informed mental health services. Dr. Martin's approach to counseling incorporates aspects of Psychodynamic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Relational Cultural Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Dr. Martin is a nationally registered and certified Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapist (TF-CBT) and a certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, two evidence-based psychotherapy models for trauma treatment. Dr. Martin is trained in levels 1 and 2 of Gottman Method to Couples Therapy and employs this method when working with couples. Her overall approach to counseling includes exploring maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns that seem to restrict individuals from living a life free of worries, regrets, shame, guilt, and disappointments. Dr. Martin provides in-person and telemental health counseling; she is board-certified to provide telemental health. Her professional experience includes extensive clinical and advocacy work with marginalized populations and individuals impacted by trauma. Her specializations include racial trauma recovery, complex trauma, cultural adaptation, multicultural issues, and women empowerment. Dr. Martin is an assistant professor of Counseling at Webster University, where she enjoys developing counselor candidates to be culturally aware and trauma-informed. Additionally, she engages in various professional services to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus and in the community. Dr. Martin started her private practice, Spring To Life Counseling, LLC, earlier in 2019. She has collaborated with various affiliates in the community, including Community Women Against Hardship, Casa de Salud, the Multicultural Counseling and Research Center, and the Ollie Heart Foundation, to help meet the mental health needs of under-resourced populations. Dr. Martin received her doctorate degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Dr. Martin's research interests center around the effect of racism and other forms of social injustices on the mental health of impacted individuals. Dr. Martin is also interested in researching counselors' competencies around multicultural issues and trauma-informed practices. She has presented nationally and internationally on Black women's experiences in predominantly White spaces. In 2019, she received the Counseling Fellowship in Social Justice Award at UMSL. Pronouns: She, Her, Hers Languages: English, Creole, French |
