Antoinette Martinez, M.Ed., LPC-Supervisor

Practice Owner
Direct Line: 214-208-7469

Email: info@nourishplaytherapy.com

Antoinette's fee is $175 per session for 50-55 mins. 

Antoinette Martinez is a bilingual (Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor (Texas License #71350) and board approved Supervisor who has experience working with children, teens, and adults. Antoinette is in network with Aetna, United Healthcare, UMR, Oscar, and Molina Marketplace. Antoinette is a certified Tricare provider. (Soon to be in network with Cigna and BCBS). 

• Registered Play Therapist Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy
• Certified EMDR therapist and EMDR Consultant through EMDRIA
• Certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist through Postpartum Support International. 
• CE Provider for The Association for Play Therapy
• CE Provider for EMDRIA

Antoinette earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX. She graduated with her Master’s degree in Counseling from the University of North Texas (UNT).  

Antoinette has extensive training in EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), SandPlay Therapy, and Perinatal Mental Health. The World Health Organization has endorsed only two therapeutic methods for treating PTSD; EMDR therapy is one of those. 

To enhance her therapeutic skills, Antoinette is also trained in the following; CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), expressive arts therapy, mindfulness based therapy, mental health diagnosis, psychodynamic therapy, IFS therapy, and trauma treatment. 

Antoinette is a natural with all age groups, but especially loves to work with little bitties and adults working through issues of parenthood, work life balance, grief, divorce recovery, abuse, career transitions, anxiety, depression, perfectionism, control, and childhood trauma. 

Antoinette especially loves to help her clients identify their strengths, grow in self compassion, and discover how their bodies respond to stress and trauma. She also applies inner child work to heal unhelpful and old narratives. She understands that while we can‘t go back in time and change the past, we can change our relationship to the past and free ourselves from distorted and automatic stories that play on repeat and hold us back. At some point these stories kept us safe, but now we can free ourselves from those old defenses and learn new ways of coping. 

In undergrad, Antoinette spent a semester abroad in Moscow, Russia. This deepened her love and passion for multi-cultural appreciation. Antoinette has spent time and combed through the best research to develop an anti-racism training for other mental health professionals. 

Fun Fact:

Antoinette has been married for what feels like a hundred years, has two kiddos, three energetic dogs, and loves to cook all kinds of Mexican food like tamales, mole, pozole, and arroz con pollo and Tex-Mex food like tacos and chili con carne. She is on the board of her neighborhood association and served four years years on the PTA board of her children's school. Antoinette is mostly an extrovert and spends lots of time in her East Dallas community (she has won the neighborhood chili cook off four times!). Her introverted self loves to cuddle on the sofa with snacks and binge watch Grey's Anatomy and Madam Secretary. Antoinette is also a breast cancer survivor and truly understands what it is like to heal from trauma and anxiety. 

Specializing in:

Adults

Play Therapy

Expressive Arts therapy

EMDR therapy, trauma therapy, anxiety, and PTSD

Sandplay Therapy

Perinatal Mental Health and Women's Issues