Meet our Team

Cierra Martino, LPCC, NCE

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Cierra Martino

Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate

Cierra is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCE). As a culturally competent therapist, Cierra understands that each person has unique world views, based on their experiences within themselves, and within relationships. Cierra specializes in couples, individuals, and families. In working with couples and families, she focuses on situations including reconciliation, strengthening the relationship, life transitions, co-parenting, conflict resolution, communication techniques, and healthy separation. For individuals, she provides feedback that elicits self-reflection, explores effective coping techniques when conflict arises, and fosters an environment of feeling heard and understood in your experiences. No matter the circumstance, Cierra offers a non-judgmental space for self-exploration, vulnerability, and healing for all clients.

Prior to Moonrise Therapy and Wellness, Cierra worked as a health coach for several years with a primary focus on helping clients to achieve goals related to nutrition, exercise, and optimal stress management. As a health coach she felt empowered to connect with clients in understanding obstacles in their lives. However, she felt limited when clients would share deeper struggles beyond her scope as a health coach. She saw this as an opportunity to learn more about mental health and completed her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Marriage, Families and Couples. She received her bachelor’s in Health and Human Physiology from the University of Iowa.

Fun facts: Cierra grew up in Iowa, and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Charleston, South Carolina prior to moving to Colorado. She enjoys watching competitive bake shows, listening to true-crime podcasts, and getting plenty of fresh air outdoors while biking, hiking, kayaking, or hosting family and friends for a back-yard barbecue.

Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers

Cierra’s Therapeutic Approach

She uses Motivational Interviewing techniques to best understand client’s challenges, motivations, and goals. Cierra incorporates these techniques while also infusing therapeutic knowledge of Internal Family System and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, putting the client at the center of their therapeutic journey while offering support and validation from an empathetic standpoint. 

Looking to contact Cierra directly?

Feel free to give her a call at (970) 999-0440 x4 or email her at cierramartino@moonrisetherapyandwellness.com.

 

Clinical training:

  • Psychodynamic Family Systems

  • Attachment-based Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

 
 

Payment Methods Accepted by Cierra:

  • Aetna Insurance

  • Kaiser Insurance

  • Private Pay

  • Out-of-network billing

  • HSA/FSA

Cierra’s Specializations

  • Couples Therapy

    Cierra helps couples to find deeper, more meaningful connection. She is skilled in working with couples facing a wide array of challenges including, but not limited to reconciliation, life transitions, co-parenting, conflict resolution, communication difficulties, and healthy separation.

  • Life Transitions

    Cierra uses a gentle approach to help address the impacts of whatever life transition you may be facing. Whether it’s a relationship shift, a job change, or even the loss of a loved one, Cierra is skilled in addressing how your life transition is impacting your identity, your future, and all the emotions in between.

  • Depression & Anxiety

    Depression and anxiety can feel isolating, heavy, and, sometimes, scary to face alone. Cierra helps clients to address, not only the day to day impacts of your depression or anxiety, but also identify and treat the underlying causes of your symptoms.

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