About Mauricio
Mauricio Perez is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Washington. He brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. Mauricio aims to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed find steady, usable steps forward.
He spent over a decade living as a monk and working abroad before becoming a therapist. That time shaped how he notices patterns in people's lives and how he grounds conversations in everyday choices.
Background and approach
He combines practical guidance with attention to deeper meaning so clients can both understand and act. Mauricio describes his style as warm, direct, and collaborative. Sessions are conversational but goal-oriented, with a focus on simple tools people can use between meetings.
He avoids judgment and works to create a respectful space for honest talk. In practice he draws on cognitive-behavioral methods along with mindfulness-influenced exercises and insight-oriented work. Those approaches help with symptoms of anxiety, mood shifts, and problems that follow trauma or substance use.
He tailors techniques to each person's situation rather than applying the same plan to everyone. People come to him for help with control issues, feelings of emptiness, workplace stress, coping after disasters, and navigating cultural or discrimination-related concerns. Mauricio supports people as they sort priorities, practice new habits, and rebuild a sense of direction one step at a time.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Many of Mauricio's core methods are evidence-based and easy to describe. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness-informed practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises that help calm the body and steady thinking. He also uses insight-oriented work to identify deeper patterns and values that shape decisions and emotional responses.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mauricio will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life to figure out what methods to try first. He adjusts the plan over time based on what helps and what feels realistic for the person he is working with.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow more interactive work and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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