Marty Ferraioli
For individuals carrying the weight of past trauma, shame, or constant family and relational stress, finding the right support can feel overwhelming—especially if past therapy has not felt effective.
While everyone is unique, I find that after 4-6 sessions, client report more optimal well-being on their measures and a reduction in anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Whether managing anxiety, navigating depression, or exploring whether ADHD or Autism plays a role, Marty provides a warm, down-to-earth, and transparent environment where clients can drop the pretense and get real. As a clinically trained, trauma-informed therapist holding certifications in ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Marty specializes in tailoring therapy to each client's unique personal history and individual strengths. Dedicated to serving an inclusive community, the work focuses on helping clients build healthier boundaries with themselves and others and rewrite the narrative of their lives.
First session
What Working Together Looks Like In our sessions, my office is your space to exhale. You won't find a stuffy, clinical environment here. Instead, I bring warmth, collaboration, and a touch of humor into our work together. I love finding creative, tangible ways to bring therapy concepts to life—whether through art, literature, videos, or just sharing a genuine laugh. Laughter and healing often go hand in hand.
Strengths
Warm, Down-to-Earth Presence: Cultivates an immediate sense of safety and ease, allowing clients to drop the pretense, exhale, and feel genuinely understood. Creativity & Practicality: Brings abstract therapeutic concepts to life using tangible tools, literature, art, humor, and relatable examples rather than a dry, clinical approach. Radical Transparency & Collaboration: Acts as an active, engaged partner in the room, ensuring therapy feels like a true team effort with clear direction and mutual respect. Trauma-Informed & Neurodiversity-Affirming Expertise: Deeply attuned to the unique experiences of neurodivergent individuals (ADHD, Autism) and trauma survivors, customizing every approach to fit the client's specific neurotype and history. Fierce Inclusivity & Empowerment: Creates an affirming, welcoming space for all clients, helping them build self-trust, establish healthy boundaries, and reclaim their personal agency.
Ideal clients
Finding the right therapist can feel exhausting—especially if you’ve tried therapy before and felt like it didn't quite "stick." If you're carrying the weight of anxiety, depression, past trauma, or navigating life with ADHD, you don’t have to figure it all out alone. My goal is to make starting therapy feel approachable, safe, and entirely centered around you .My name is Marty, and I offer a warm, down-to-earth, and transparent environment where you can drop the pretense and get real.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use a creative approach to the evidence-based practices, engaging my clients in understanding the CBT relationship between thoughts, emotions and behaviors to initiate positive change to thwart the unhelpful thinking traps which keep client's stuck in a loop of behaviors that hold them back from achieving goals, moving forward and feeling more positive about themselves.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I engage clients in self awareness of feelings and thoughts to move through emotional situations and engage in more positive interactions with others, including setting healthy emotional boundaries for more balanced and positive relationships with themselves and with others.
Psychoanalytic
I use psychoanalytic therapy with a trauma-informed lens to help my clients explore and understand how their past experiences influence their current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I aid my clients in moving through their past experiences, crafting a new narrative and repairing their unhealed, fractured selves.
Location
Virtual sessions
In-person sessions2217 Princess Anne St, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, Suite 323
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- VirginiaLicense 0904017248