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Dru Martin
MFTI
For as long as Dru Martin can remember, she has wanted to be a therapist.
While many people spend years figuring out what they want to do with their lives, she has always felt a deep inner pull toward mental health therapy.
She has a desire to help others, specifically through listening, understanding, and supporting people as they navigate pain, confusion, growth, and healing.
Becoming a therapist isn’t just a career for her—it’s a calling, and one that’s deeply personal.
Growing up, she was always the person friends came to for advice or just to talk.
Dru learned early on that sometimes people just need someone to be with them in their pain, without trying to fix it or make it disappear.
She has always found meaning in creating space for people to be fully themselves.
She carries that same energy into every therapeutic relationship she builds today.
Part of Dru’s passion for this work is her belief in the power of connection.
We are relational beings, shaped by our families, communities, culture, and experiences.
She has understood how deeply pain and healing are connected to our relationships with others and ourselves.
She knows what it feels like to feel misunderstood, carry the weight of things that feel too heavy to name, and long for someone to truly see and accept her.
These experiences have made her even more committed to being a therapist who shows up with warmth, compassion, and authenticity.
She brings her whole self into this work—her empathy, lived experience, curiosity, and deep respect for the people she works with.
She doesn’t see clients as “cases” to be solved or “problems” to be fixed. She sees people.
She sees their stories, survival, strength, and longing to feel whole.
Her role is to walk alongside them, not to lead the way or tell them where to go, but to support them in finding their path.
“I know how powerful it is to feel safe, seen, and understood.”
She aims to create that safety for every client she works with.
Dru wants people to know that therapy with her is a place where they can bring all parts of themselves, especially the parts that feel messy, scared, or uncertain.
She holds those parts with care, without judgment, and with hope.
One of the things she loves most about therapy is witnessing change, not the kind that’s forced or rushed, but the slow, brave, sometimes painful process of someone beginning to trust themselves again.
“I love seeing people believe that they deserve more, of someone learning how to breathe a little easier, love a little deeper, and live a little freer.”
Being part of that process is an honor she never takes lightly.
She also feels a deep responsibility as a therapist to stay grounded and present, keep learning, and do her inner work.
She believes we can only take others as far as we’ve gone.
That means tending to her own healing, staying curious about her triggers and patterns, and holding herself accountable to grow.
Therapy is not just something she does—it’s something she lives.
The incredible resilience she sees in people every day keeps her passionate about this work.
It’s easy to feel hopeless when looking at the world, but she finds hope when she sits with someone in their most vulnerable moments and watches them slowly find their voice, strength, and worth.
That is why she keeps showing up.
Because even when things feel dark, she believes in people’s capacity to heal.
This work is not always easy.
It requires patience, presence, and a willingness to sit with pain.
But to her, there’s nothing more meaningful than offering someone a space to feel seen and accepted exactly as they are.
She doesn’t take it for granted that people let her into their lives and trust her with their stories.
That trust is sacred, and she treats it with the care it deserves.
Being a therapist is not just about having the proper techniques or theories—though those matter.
It’s about being a real human with another real human.
It’s about connection, safety, and the courage to feel.
And she is endlessly grateful to do this work.
She has always wanted to be a therapist, and now that she is on this path, she knows she is exactly where she is meant to be.
This work fills her up, challenges, inspires, and gives her purpose.
She is here for the long haul—not because it’s easy, but because it’s meaningful.
And she can’t imagine doing anything else.
Sometimes weekly therapy is not enough to get things under control, if this is the case try our youth or adult Mental Health Level Up IOP program.
Lets face it, who likes to talk about their crap with other people?
If you’re like most clients, you’re used to being judged despite hearing so many people talk about non judgment and when you do open up, it seems like the more you share, the less likely you are to get compassion.
We’ve worked our butts off to create a clinic where the unfiltered, real you, can show up and heal, so dammit give therapy a chance!
We love the unfiltered real you, let’s heal together. – Utah Family Therapy Team
