Alnardo Martinez, LMHC

Alnardo Martinez, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor in the Anxiety Disorders Center and for School and Community Programs at the Child Mind Institute. Mr. Martinez specializes in the evaluation and treatment of anxiety related disorders in children, teens, and young adult. He has extensive experience treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety, selective mutism (SM), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and specific phobias. He also has prior experience working with the Learning & Development Center to provide bilingual (Spanish) neuropsychological evaluations.

Prior to joining the Child Mind Institute, Mr. Martinez worked at Rogers Behavioral Health, interviewing and assessing adults and children for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, mood disorders and eating disorders. He received training in exposure with response prevention (ERP) and assisted in facilitating ERP treatments alongside leading psychologists in the field of child and adolescent OCD. Before joining the clinical team at the Child Mind Institute, he was a member of the intake team, assessing the needs of families and connecting them to the appropriate services.

Mr. Martinez is passionate about helping children and adolescents who struggle with mental health and learning disorders find the best tools for coping and leading happy lives. He is dedicated to providing evidence-based interventions to children and adolescents where and when they need it most, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Selective Mutism (PCIT-SM).

Mr. Martinez provides clinical services in both English and Spanish.

• Clinician, Trauma Service, School and Community Programs, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY
• Behavioral Technician, Intensive OCD Program, Anxiety Disorders Center, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY

• MS, Professional Counseling, Southeastern University
• BA, Counseling Psychology, Trinity College of Florida

• Intern, Medical Center of Trinity, Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit