About Maria
Maria Picciotti is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with ten years of licensed practice and a long history in the field. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She uses a respectful and down-to-earth style and emphasizes practical steps that fit each person's life.
Her sessions center on talking through what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps set clear goals. Together they build short-term strategies for relief and longer-term skills to manage difficult emotions and overwhelm. Maria draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based methods to change unhelpful thoughts and increase meaningful action.
She also uses client-centered listening and dialectical skills to help people handle intense feelings and improve relationships. Where relevant, she brings in relationship-focused methods like the Gottman approach to address intimacy concerns. She has experience working with compassion fatigue, LGBT issues, anger, self-esteem, social anxiety, phobias, dissociation, chronic illness, and a range of mood and personality-related concerns.
Her background includes supporting people living with HIV/AIDS and those coping with complex co-occurring conditions. Maria aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can try new ways of coping. She explains options plainly and tailors the path forward to each person's needs and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when feelings feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the client's needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for short progress notes or ongoing support between appointments. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Dissociation
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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