Practitioner record · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Anuja Martinez has been in practice 25 years and is licensed in Illinois. Anuja lists LGBT, relationship issues and trauma and abuse among 21 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.
Everything below is either quoted from Anuja's own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.
01 · Who Anuja works with
Anuja lists 4 specialisms and 17 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Anuja chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.
02 · In Anuja's own words
Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.
I’ve been a therapist for more than 25 years, and one thing I know for certain is that people rarely fit neatly into boxes-and I don’t believe therapy should try to put them there. I work with adults and young adults navigating trauma, grief, relationships, identity, major life transitions, and the complicated experience of simply trying to be yourself in a world that often has strong opinions about who you should be. I have a particular passion for working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, including transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and gender-expansive clients. Your identity is not something you will need to explain, defend, minimize, or educate me about in order to receive support. My therapy style is warm, straightforward, curious, and very human. I’m not the therapist who will stare at you silently for 45 minutes while taking mysterious notes. I will listen, ask questions, challenge you when it might help, celebrate your growth, and occasionally bring humor into the room because sometimes healing and laughter belong in the same conversation. I believe therapy can be a place to take off the armor. You can bring the messy parts, the contradictions, the anger, the humor, the uncertainty, and the parts of yourself you may have learned to make smaller for other people. You don't have to become a different person to heal. Sometimes the work is learning how to live more freely and confidently as the person you already are.
Anuja Martinez, on the BetterHelp listing · read 9 Oct 2026
03 · What happens next
Anuja practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Anuja's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.
BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Anuja at this point.
BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Anuja is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Anuja.
You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.
A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.
Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.
04 · Before you commit
Built from what Anuja actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Anuja's - Anuja has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.
“How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”
Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.
“With 25 years in, what has changed most in how you work?”
Long experience is only an advantage if it has been examined. This tends to surface whether it has.
“How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”
On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.
05 · Practical details
06 · Provenance
Anuja's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 9 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.
The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.
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