About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with twenty years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and relationship concerns.
She frames therapy as a team effort and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Her sessions are straightforward and focused. She listens first, then helps people track patterns that keep problems going.
She uses practical tools to manage anxiety, build better communication, and handle painful memories or grief.
Background and approach
Dr. Peters draws on several tried approaches to fit each person’s needs. She blends attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses EMDR for people wanting a structured way to work through traumatic memories. Over two decades she has supported people through life changes, addiction concerns, parenting stress, caregiving burden, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Her practice pays attention to complicated situations like blended families, adoption and foster care histories, chronic illness, and codependency. People who choose her often want clear steps and a steady guide rather than long, abstract conversations. She aims to make progress feel tangible, whether that means fewer panic symptoms, calmer relationships, or better sleep and focus.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and connections, helping people understand patterns that affect intimacy and communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, offers a structured process to work through traumatic memories and lessen their emotional hold.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different methods when needed, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together whether to emphasize thinking-and-behavior tools, attachment work, or trauma-focused processing.
Online formats can make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, practice skills between meetings, or check in when brief support helps. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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