Martha Kilgore , LPC

Martha Kilgore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama with 25 years of professional experience. She supports people facing stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, family conflicts, and the challenges of grief and loss. Rooted in a strengths-based perspective, she views each person as the expert of their own story and seeks to help them build on existing resources to manage life’s difficulties.

Martha draws on a range of clinical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, to tailor care to each individual. Her specialties include family and relationship work, grief, self-esteem, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, career concerns, and compassion fatigue, with additional focus areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. She acknowledges that reaching out for support takes courage and offers steady, compassionate guidance to help clients move toward a more fulfilling and balanced life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Martha Kilgore

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters most to them and take committed action toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than getting stuck trying to eliminate them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by encouraging a values-driven life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own experiences and priorities, offering empathic listening and support so clients can explore their feelings and find their own solutions; this approach supports self-esteem, relationship concerns, and grief work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical strategies and skill-building, which can be useful for mood concerns, stress, and coping with addictive behaviors.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative exploration helps shape a plan that fits the person rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, or mobility needs. These modalities make it easier to maintain continuity of care from different locations and to select the format that feels most comfortable for each session while continuing to work with licensed professionals and therapists toward meaningful change.