About Maria
Maria Luna is a licensed social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and trauma. She holds the Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW, and the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and practices from Wisconsin. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on real steps people can use each day.
Maria draws from several practical methods to help people feel steadier. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients name their values and take actions that matter to them. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions when they fit the person’s goals. Sessions typically focus on immediate problems like panic, workplace stress, or low mood.
Maria also helps people cope with grief, relationship strain, and the long effects of past abuse. She works with clients who are LGBT and those facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, or career transitions. Over five years of practice, Maria has supported people through major life changes and persistent worries.
She aims to build practical plans for coping, while also exploring patterns that keep people stuck. Meetings are collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. To begin, clients answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
Therapy can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging, letting people pick what works best for daily life.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to change patterns that keep stress and worry active. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and make it easier to notice choices in the moment.Determining which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, current struggles, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together the client and therapist try methods, note what helps, and adjust the plan so it matches the client’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and eye contact. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people get support between longer sessions or when writing is easier than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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