About Maria
Maria Gimenez-Cruz is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and the everyday struggles that wear on mood and relationships. Maria speaks English and Spanish and works with adults from Florida and beyond through online sessions.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions center on identifying strengths, learning practical skills, and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She aims to help clients notice patterns, reduce overwhelm, and build coping habits that fit their routines. Maria combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person, and mindfulness techniques to ease persistent worry and improve sleep.
Narrative ideas also help people reframe painful experiences and regain agency. Common concerns she supports include anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and burnout. She also helps with issues tied to immigration, attachment and abandonment, and grief after loss.
Maria works with practical steps for anger, somatic symptoms, and social anxiety. Her sessions use conversations, skill practice, and goal-setting. People who prefer a calm, respectful partnership tend to do well with her approach.
To start, clients complete a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Maria uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person, helping them name goals and use their own strengths to solve problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to spot and change thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety and mood struggles, often with simple exercises and homework.Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. She will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps you make progress. That collaborative tone helps tailor work around anxiety, trauma, sleep difficulties, and life transitions.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, try different formats, and pick what suits a given week or moment.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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