About Maria
Maria Castro is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington. She brings 12 years of experience to work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to meet different communication needs.
Her style is person-centered and strengths-based. She treats people as the expert in their own lives and offers guidance without judgment. Maria emphasizes respect, inclusivity, and compassion in every conversation.
Background and approach
She combines practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with solution-focused methods. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and set small, achievable goals. Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings to manage mood and reduce worry.
Maria has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship and parenting struggles, low self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and the impacts of abuse or physical trauma. She also supports people facing multicultural stress, disasters, and isolation. Therapy with her is collaborative.
She listens first, then tailors sessions to each person's needs and goals. She aims to help people build coping tools, improve communication, and move toward more stable daily life. To begin, people complete a brief questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their routine.
Maria uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
How Maria Uses Practical Approaches Online
Maria blends client-centered listening with concrete, goal-oriented techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-Centered Therapy means she follows the person's lead, listens without judgment, and focuses on what matters most to that individual. This approach is helpful when someone needs a safe space to make sense of feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep anxiety and low mood active. She helps clients try small experiments, notice changes, and build coping skills that reduce worry and improve daily functioning. CBT works well for panic, generalized anxiety, and mood challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, preferences, and life situation. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life and to keep working on goals from wherever someone is located.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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