KELVIN MARTINEZ

CONTACT INFO:

Direct tel: 213.986.5443

Main Office: 310.271.2275

Email: kelvin@pbapsychology.com

Kelvin Martinez, M.A., AMFT is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT 124195) working under the supervision of Dr. Janice Nishiyama (PSY 16545). He received a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and comprehensive clinical training at AIDS Project Los Angeles where he worked in depth with adults, couples, and groups from a diverse range of life experiences. 

As an existential therapist, Kelvin collaborates with clients to address their mental health priorities while also cultivating meaning, depth, and intentionality in the process. His clinical experience includes working with clients through issues related to life transitions, sexuality, gender, aging, religious trauma, anxiety, depression, relational conflict, professional burnout, grief and more. In his work with families and couples, Kelvin has experience helping clients understand and address various issues, including stagnated or conflicted relational dynamics in high conflict family situations, navigating the process of amicable separation and divorce, considering and adjusting to non-monogomous partnerships, and cultivating increased connection and vulnerability in their relationships. His experience includes working with diverse couples and families processing the particularities of their cultural experiences, including issues specific to interracial or intercultural relationships, LGBT partnerships, and gender transition.

From years working in trauma-informed community mental health, Kelvin has experience with clients dealing with issues related to addiction, mental health crises, complex trauma, chronic illness, as well as various social oppressions. Kelvin recognizes each client as the expert of their own experience - your race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability and class will be treated with honor, respect, and your personal understanding of these experiences will be considered a significant asset in therapy.

Kelvin’s existential perspective is also particularly well-suited for exploring clients’ personal experiences with meditation, climate grief, socio-political anxiety, psychedelics, and evolving spiritual or intentional practices. In addition to contributing his own perspective rooted in formal theories of psychology, Kelvin is also experienced in helping clients process and healthfully integrate perspectives from their own theoretical interests, such as the Enneagram personality type system, Internal Family Systems, Buddhist Psychology, as well as other theoretical, spiritual, or cultural belief systems.