About Maria
Maria Regla is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She uses plain language and a calm presence to help clients feel heard and understood. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she offers care that respects cultural background and personal values.
She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions. That includes communication techniques, ways to cope with panic and overwhelm, and strategies to build self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at reducing immediate distress while also working toward longer term goals. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are used to teach emotional regulation and grounding skills. For clients who have experienced trauma, she incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to process painful memories when appropriate. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, first responder strain, postpartum mood issues, and the fallout of disasters or major life changes.
Maria helps people strengthen communication, confront control issues, and recover from guilt or shame. She guides those feeling isolated toward social reconnection and toward clearer life purpose. Her style is collaborative and steady, offering concrete steps during a time of uncertainty.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people gain clarity about their feelings and what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. These approaches are useful for anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, and coping with life shifts.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, symptoms, and personal preference. That collaborative plan can change over time as needs evolve and progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit easily into a workday. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to choose a shorter, written check-in. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life and support steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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