Alnardo Martinez, LMHC, is the Interim Director of the Pediatric OCD Intensive Service and a licensed mental health counselor in the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute. With a warm and compassionate approach, Mr. Martinez is dedicated to helping children, teens, and young adults overcome anxiety-related challenges and build meaningful, fulfilling lives. He has extensive experience treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety, selective mutism (SM), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), specific phobias, and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANDAS/PANS). As a Level 3 Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) practitioner and a graduate of the International OCD Foundation's Behavioral Therapy Training Institute (BTTI), he brings advanced skills to his work with clients, offering specialized care for those with treatment-resistant symptoms.
If you are in crisis please dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Please note that ADAA is not a direct service organization. ADAA does not provide psychiatric, psychological, or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Founded in 1979, ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through aligning research, practice and education.