Dr. Martinez is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned his Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree with a focus on Community Psychology from the University of La Verne. His graduate training emphasized understanding clients within their social and environmental contexts, exploring how factors such as culture, identity, and community affect mental health and wellbeing.
Throughout his academic and professional career, Dr. Martinez has worked with a range of populations, including Latinx, Asian American, African American, economically disadvantaged, and unhoused individuals. While in graduate school, he helped organize a professional development conference for early-career clinicians on culturally responsive care for communities. His clinical experience includes providing individual, couple, and group therapy and facilitating anti-bullying presentations for youth.
Dr. Martinez views clients as experts on their own lives and sees therapy as a collaborative process. He strives to help clients build insight, confidence, and emotional balance while discovering their own capacity for resilience and self-advocacy.
