Martrell Kelly John , LISW-CP, MD, LCSW-C

Martrell Kelly John is a licensed social worker in South Carolina who supports adults, adolescents, and families facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, depression, anger, self-esteem concerns, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. With seven years of clinical experience, she brings focused experience in hospice and end-of-life counseling and has worked in behavioral health, bereavement, foster care, adoption, disability, and educational settings.

She believes every person brings strengths and resilience to the work of healing. Martrell uses a holistic, evidence-based approach tailored to each individual, helping clients develop practical skills for daily functioning while exploring the impact of life events such as illness, relationship loss, abuse, or major transitions. Her practice emphasizes respectful, non-judgmental collaboration to identify goals and build strategies that align with a person’s values and needs.

Martrell holds professional licenses and credentials listed as LISW-CP and LCSW-C. The LISW-CP designation indicates a licensed independent social worker authorized for clinical practice, and the LCSW-C reflects a licensed clinical social work credential associated with Maryland licensure. Her aim is to help clients increase emotional awareness, strengthen coping skills, and work toward a more meaningful and manageable daily life.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care and Healing

Martrell works with evidence-based techniques that are tailored to the concerns people bring to therapy. One approach focuses on trauma-informed care, which helps people understand how past traumatic events affect current thoughts, emotions, and relationships and offers tools to reduce reactivity and improve safety and regulation. Another approach emphasizes skills-based coping strategies that teach practical techniques for managing stress, anxiety, and mood so clients can better navigate daily demands and performance expectations. A grief-focused approach provides structured support for processing loss and adjusting to life changes, including hospice and end-of-life concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Martrell collaborates with each person to identify goals, test interventions, and adjust methods based on individual needs, preferences, and response to treatment, so care evolves with the client.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access support from home or other convenient locations. These formats provide flexibility in scheduling, allow ongoing communication between sessions, and help maintain continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists regardless of geographic constraints.