About Maria
Maria Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She uses clear, direct talk to make the first steps feel easier. Maria highlights practical skills and steady support so people can try small changes that add up over time.
Maria brings 15 years of clinical counseling experience to her practice and has also worked in broader professional roles for many years.
Background and approach
She has experience helping people after trauma and abuse, and she often supports those dealing with grief, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She also works with concerns like parenting challenges, eating issues, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her approach adapts to each person.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the individual. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thought patterns and build different responses. For trauma work she may incorporate EMDR when appropriate and comfortable for the person.
Sessions are practical and goal-focused while still honoring how hard change can feel. Maria emphasizes simple tools that can be practiced between meetings, like breathing and grounding strategies, small behavioral goals, and reframing unhelpful thoughts. She aims to make sessions feel like a conversation where the person’s priorities come first.
Maria is licensed in Indiana and Nevada as an LCSW, and she offers sessions in English. She works with people across a wide range of life stages and concerns, tailoring plans to fit each person’s situation and goals.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Maria often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. This approach helps people feel heard and decide what goals matter most to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps with anxiety and depression by teaching concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and build different behaviors.
For trauma-related work she may use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, which involves structured memory processing to reduce distress tied to traumatic events.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Maria works with each person to test methods, adjust goals, and find what feels most helpful. The first few sessions usually focus on understanding needs and trying a few strategies together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or ask short questions between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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