About Maryellen
Dr. Maryellen Romero is a licensed psychologist in Arizona with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress and anxiety, and on challenges such as addiction, trauma, and depression.
Her approach is practical and respectful. She aims to make it easier for people to begin getting help. Her work centers on understanding relationships and patterns that shape feelings and behavior.
She uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships affect trust, closeness, and coping.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. Sessions are adapted to each person’s needs. She listens for what matters most, then shapes goals and steps that feel realistic.
People can expect direct conversation, gentle feedback, and concrete strategies they can use between sessions. Dr. Romero also addresses concerns that often come alongside anxiety, such as grief, low self-esteem, codependency, caregiver stress, and problems tied to substance and process addictions.
She pays attention to life transitions and issues related to aging and caregiving. She works in English and practices in Arizona. Her style is steady and practical, aimed at helping people manage current worries and build skills for longer term coping.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy
Dr. Romero uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships shape emotions and coping. This approach helps people understand patterns around trust, closeness, and feeling alone, and it is useful for anxiety, grief, and relationship-driven stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT provides clear exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and change mood patterns.
Deciding on an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and daily routines, then suggest a plan that often blends attachment work and CBT. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the work fits the person's life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and messaging can make shorter check-ins possible and fit into busy schedules. These options give flexibility so therapy can be scheduled around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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