About Maria
Maria Russo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Colorado with 25 years of experience. She draws on a Masters in Social Work and decades of clinical practice to help people move through anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. Her work is grounded in practical steps and steady support so clients can regain a sense of control and purpose.
She often begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Maria uses straightforward conversations to identify patterns that get in the way of healthier choices. She helps people notice how past hurts continue to shape present behavior and offers ways to build new skills for coping and decision making. Her practice includes coaching around career and life transitions, recovery from addiction, and improving communication in close relationships.
Maria pays attention to family of origin issues, abandonment, and blended family concerns when they affect current wellbeing. She also supports people facing illness, aging and other life-stage challenges. Therapeutic tools come from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative work, motivational interviewing, and existential ideas about meaning and choice.
Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills, reduce anxiety, and increase confidence through real-life steps clients can try between meetings. Maria frames therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to set goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as needs change.
Her goal is to help clients move from surviving to living with more joy, authenticity, and connection.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Maria uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs a steady, supportive space to talk through worries and identity concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression going and offers concrete steps to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maria talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them over time, keeping the work practical and goal-focused rather than fixed to a single technique.
Online therapy here can happen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make therapy fit into busy schedules and changing needs.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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