About Maria
Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing parenting strain, career questions, identity concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Maria combines practical talk therapy with tools that help people change difficult thoughts and behaviors. She listens first to learn how each person sees their life. Then she and the person work together to set small, realistic goals and try strategies that fit day-to-day routines.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Rutgers University with majors in Psychology and Social Work, and a Master of Social Work from New York University. Over her career she has kept learning and expanding her skillset to meet different needs.
In sessions she uses a flexible style that draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior ideas, hypnotherapy, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her offer both short-term coping skills and deeper work when that fits a person’s goals.
Maria works with common concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, dissociation, blended family adjustments, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her approach is straightforward and calm. She aims to help people feel understood and to build practical ways to handle life’s hard moments.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. It prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, and helps people feel heard while they work toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication which can help with intense emotions and relationship problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean beginning with short-term skills like breathing and thought-reframing, then adding deeper work such as exploring attachment patterns or using mindfulness and hypnotherapy when helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress no matter where someone is located in Texas.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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