About Maria
Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 18 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and parenting challenges. She uses a blend of approaches rather than a single method.
Maria draws from client-centered methods to understand each person's priorities and from cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also integrates dialectical skills, mindfulness, and hypnotherapy when those tools match a person’s needs. Maria emphasizes getting to know each person as an individual. In sessions she helps people clarify goals, talk through difficult feelings, and build small, doable steps.
She aims to balance practical strategies with space to process harder emotions. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts with majors in psychology and social work from Rutgers University and a Master of Social Work from New York University. Over the years she has pursued additional training related to anxiety, panic, adolescent clinical work, psychoanalytic ideas, and hypnotherapy.
She works with a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, ADHD, self-esteem, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and attachment or abandonment struggles. Maria practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. If someone prefers a therapist who adapts methods to fit their goals, her flexible, person-focused approach may be a good match.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Maria often uses client-centered therapy to learn what matters most to each person and to shape sessions around their goals. This approach focuses on listening, validating experience, and building a plan that fits the individual’s life.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or depression. CBT is practical and skill-based, useful for worry, panic, phobias, and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are used to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will review symptoms, goals, and preferences together and adjust methods over time. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and small homework tasks when helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or fit lower bandwidth, live chat works for shorter focused conversations, and messaging is convenient for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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