Bailey Martin
Master's Level Intern
Bailey supports children, teens, and young adults in building emotional regulation and confidence.
Many adults and couples find themselves carrying patterns that feel hard to change — conflict that escalates quickly, conversations that turn into disconnection, anxiety that makes it hard to feel grounded, or boundaries that feel difficult to set and maintain. Some are navigating relationship stress, life transitions, family dynamics, premarital concerns, or the feeling of trying everything and still ending up in the same place.
In therapy with me, adults and couples get a space to slow things down, feel understood, and begin making sense of what is happening beneath the surface. We’ll work together to better understand emotional triggers, communication patterns, and relational dynamics while building practical tools for healthier conflict, clearer self-expression, realistic boundaries, and deeper connection. I believe people and relationships do not need to be “fixed” — they need support, insight, and small meaningful shifts that help change feel possible.
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
Professional Background
Education and Experience: Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, Northwestern University. Alex’s clinical training is rooted in systemic therapy, with additional experience using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Her work focuses on supporting adults and couples with relational conflict, communication patterns, anxiety, boundaries, family dynamics, and life transitions.
Clinical Supervision: Bailey operates under the supervision of Michelle Rathburn, LMFT
Bailey brings a collaborative, strengths-based approach and welcomes parent involvement, while honoring the young person’s voice and autonomy. She offers a calm, collaborative space where kids, teens, and young adults feel safe, understood, and supported as they build emotional awareness, coping skills, and confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
For identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns
Solution Focused Therapy
Goal-oriented work focused on your strengths
Narrative Therapy
Reframe the story of your relationship and recognize patterns that no longer serve you
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Building psychological flexibility and living in alignment with your values
Systemic Perspective
Understanding how relationships and systems impact mental health
- You’ve tried “everything” but nothing has worked
- You struggle with anxiety and want to be able to breathe again
- You want to improve conflict resolution and develop healthy self-expression
- You want to be able to implement and maintain boundaries
- You want to improve your relationship or reconnect with your partner
- Your family is struggling and you don’t know what to do
- You’re ready to work through life’s hardest moments and discover healing
- Relationship conflict
- Communication challenges
- Emotional disconnection
- Premarital concerns
- Boundary setting
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Life transitions
- Family conflict
- Emotional regulation
- Self-expression
- Stress
- Feeling stuck in repeated patterns
- Conflict resolution
- Building healthier relationships
Customer testimonials
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Sessions available as soon as this week
Ready to Start?
Your healing starts today. Book a free 20-minute consultation to see if working together feels like the right fit.
