About Maria
Maria Grimshaw-Clark is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of practice. She helps people struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship problems. Her style is direct and warm, aiming to turn emotional pain into new understanding and stronger coping skills.
Clients meet a therapist who listens first and then offers clear, practical tools. Sessions focus on learning new ways to handle intense feelings, improving communication, and building healthier patterns.
Background and approach
Work may include short-term coping strategies and longer-term behavior changes. Maria draws on client-centered methods that follow the person's pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage strong emotions and urges.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help with grounding and stress reduction. Her background includes extensive experience with relationship issues, family concerns, trauma and abuse, and attachment challenges. She has helped people facing caregiver stress, codependency, infidelity, and the fallout from separation and divorce.
Maria also supports men navigating midlife changes and identity questions. Sessions are available in several online formats to fit different needs. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.
Maria works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead and building a trusting working relationship; it is useful when someone needs a therapist who listens closely and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can be especially helpful for anxiety and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for managing intense feelings and relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Adjustments are made along the way so strategies stay useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for more in-depth work that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers written check-ins over spoken sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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