About Maria
Dr. Maria Clapp is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She greets people with warmth and straightforward listening.
Her aim is to help people feel more in control when stress or anxiety starts to take over. She takes a practical, person-focused approach. Sessions begin with what feels most urgent and useful to the client.
Maria blends client-centered work with solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral ideas to build concrete steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with adults across many life stages, and experience addressing substance use, anger, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She has also provided programs in parenting and anger management and supported people facing legal-related counseling requirements. Maria speaks English and Spanish and brings a broad view of life circumstances to therapy.
She looks at the many parts of a person’s day-to-day life that can affect mood and functioning, such as work, caregiving demands, or chronic health issues. In sessions she focuses on practical tools and small, achievable changes. Clients can expect clear, direct conversation about goals and simple strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress.
The work aims to reconnect people with strengths and improve day-to-day coping. Her training includes a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and a master’s in Mental Health Counseling. Maria describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps people set goals they can realistically meet.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of the camera or on the phone. It focuses on building a trusting working relationship and shaping sessions around the client’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers step-by-step skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that fit their life, and adjust methods based on what helps. Together they decide whether to emphasize client-centered support, CBT tools, or brief solution-focused steps depending on the situation.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions, track progress, and get shorter, timely support without scheduling a full appointment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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