About Maria
Maria Valtierra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 12 years of counseling experience. She works with people facing anxiety and a wide range of life stresses. Maria uses a warm, respectful style to make it easier to talk about hard topics.
Her work often addresses mood concerns such as depression and bipolar conditions, and common struggles like grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and career questions. She also supports people coping with substance use, trauma and abuse, and challenges related to ADHD and eating issues.
Background and approach
Maria blends practical methods in session. She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and mindfulness to bring calm to overwhelming moments. She also uses solution-focused and client-centered ideas to keep sessions goal-oriented and grounded in each person's values.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs. Conversations and plans are shaped around what matters most to the client, and Maria adjusts pace and tools as progress unfolds. She speaks English and Spanish for those who prefer either language.
Her approach aims to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions. She helps with specific problems like panic attacks, OCD symptoms, phobias, and communication issues, and with broader concerns such as self-esteem, midlife transitions, immigration-related stress, and caregiver burnout.
How Maria’s Approaches Work Online
Maria often uses cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions to help people identify and change patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on practical steps and simple exercises to try between sessions, which many find useful for panic, OCD symptoms, and phobias.She also incorporates client-centered principles that prioritize the person’s own goals and pace. That means conversations are guided by what the client wants to work on, and the therapist adapts techniques to fit each person’s values and daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maria will talk through options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on results and preferences so the work matches the client’s needs and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coping tips, or when checking in between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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