About Maria
Maria "Mali" Jimenez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship pain, and addiction. She offers calm, direct guidance for people who want practical tools and steadier emotional footing. Mali works bilingually in English and Spanish and practices from Colorado.
She draws on seven years of clinical experience in nonprofit, hospital, and independent practice settings. Mali blends mindfulness work with body-focused awareness so people can notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She pairs that with cognitive work to name unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Mali also uses attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That can help with abandonment, codependency, trust issues, and repeating old relationship cycles.
Sessions include talking, guided awareness exercises, and practical behavior steps to practice between meetings. Her style is compassionate but direct. She lets people lead their work while offering structure and gentle challenges when change is needed.
Mali also uses motivational interviewing to support commitment when clients feel stuck. People choose her for help with sleep, eating concerns, intimacy issues, anger, career stress, and transitions like separation or grief. She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short questionnaire is used to match and then a session is scheduled according to availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape present patterns. In an online session this means talking through relationship histories and noticing how current reactions connect to those early experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behavior. Online sessions use practical exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior experiments, and review results together. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mali will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with CBT and mindfulness exercises, and adjusting the mix as progress is made. Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face when a longer session or visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options create flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, while keeping the therapeutic process focused on goals and usable skills.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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