About Maria
Maria Alderman is a licensed social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, and life changes. She also supports people dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, body image and eating struggles, sleep problems, and work or career stress. Maria practices in Michigan and speaks English.
She keeps conversations direct and respectful. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and how to reach those goals. Maria builds a plan together with each person and adjusts it over time as needs shift.
Background and approach
Her work draws on practical methods that look at thoughts, values, and behavior. Maria uses techniques to notice unhelpful thinking, commit to meaningful action, and develop clearer patterns in relationships. She combines that with a client-centered stance that centers the person's experience.
With six years of clinical experience as an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker - she has worked with many common concerns like depression, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and bipolar symptoms alongside life transitions and chronic health challenges. Maria also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, and care-related stress. Sessions are offered in several online formats so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time that works for the person. Maria aims to offer steady, practical support while people work through change.
Approach-driven care in online sessions
Maria blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a client-centered stance to meet practical goals. ACT helps people clarify what matters most and take action aligned with those values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, or life changes. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building clearer behavior patterns to reduce distress and improve daily functioning, which often helps with worry, sleep issues, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to your goals and preferences, then suggests ways of working that match your needs. You and the therapist adjust methods over time if something isn't helping or if priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in, and chat or messaging offers shorter, more frequent contact between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and support steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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