About Maria
Maria Caruso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience. She practices in New Jersey and offers therapy for a wide range of life stresses, including anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Her work is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find workable steps forward.
She approaches counseling as a partnership. Sessions focus on clear goals and real tasks clients can try between meetings. Maria blends several approaches to match each person's needs and style rather than using a single method for everyone.
Background and approach
In sessions she may use cognitive-behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered listening to make space for the client’s perspective and on narrative techniques to help people reframe painful stories. Practical tools like journaling and brief contracts are common parts of her work.
Maria has experience supporting people facing illness, caregiving stress, major life transitions, and loss. She has worked in clinical and corporate settings, helping people navigate career shifts and family challenges. Her goal is to offer hope, clear steps, and emotional support as clients work toward change.
People who choose her often want therapy that blends active skill-building with reflective conversation. She aims to help people feel more capable of handling stress, repairing important relationships, and moving through grief or life changes with more clarity.
How Maria Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's experience. The therapist creates an open space for people to tell their story and guides them to identify what matters most. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical experiments and exercises to try between sessions. Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories and rewrite how they view difficult events or relationships.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try approaches that make sense for each person. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so they feel useful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online formats make this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when scheduling needs a compact option. These formats let people work on anxiety, grief, relationship problems, and life changes without rearranging major parts of their day.
Questions people ask
What types of concerns does she address?
What is her approach to therapy?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled?
How do I begin therapy with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.