About Maria
Maria Del Carmen Reyna is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and relationship struggles. She draws on six years of practice in California as an LCSW to guide straightforward, practical work. Maria speaks English and Spanish and focuses on making therapy usable day to day.
She uses a trauma-informed, relational style that looks at how past experiences shape current patterns. Sessions often include talking through old wounds and the habits that developed to protect you.
Background and approach
Maria aims to make those patterns easier to notice and change. Her approach mixes focused skills with supportive conversation. Clients learn tools to calm the nervous system, reduce worry, and make clearer choices.
She also addresses problems that come up around trust, attachment, and feeling empty or stuck. Maria draws from several methods including attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and mindfulness. That combination lets her tailor sessions to what a person needs in the moment.
The style is compassionate, practical, and collaborative. People often come for help with anxiety, self-esteem, family of origin issues, communication problems, or trauma and abuse. Maria helps people name patterns like codependency, dissociation, or fear of abandonment, and then builds step-by-step plans to shift those patterns.
She supports parents and caregivers through caregiver stress and fatherhood issues as they balance responsibilities and emotional needs.
Using Attachment and Cognitive Tools Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape reactions and trust. In sessions this means noticing patterns in how you connect, and practicing new ways to feel safer in relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. It is useful for reducing worry and changing behaviors that keep anxiety going.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to a person's needs and goals. Together they may try different methods and adjust based on what helps most, with the person guiding the pace and focus.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments, work around work or caregiving schedules, and use therapy in ways that fit everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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