About Maria
Maria Froilan is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and life transitions. Maria speaks English and Tagalog and brings a calm, straightforward approach to each session.
Maria sees people who are dealing with trauma, loss, sleep problems, and mood concerns including bipolar disorder and ADHD. She also helps with relationship and family-related challenges, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Phobias and social anxiety are included among the issues she addresses. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats the person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Sessions aim to clarify immediate problems and identify small, workable steps forward. Maria often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also applies trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause distress.
Together with each client she adapts these approaches to match the problem and the person's pace. People who prefer clear guidance and practical tools tend to do well with her. She encourages questions and keeps goals concrete.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she makes starting therapy straightforward and manageable.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Maria uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot automatic thoughts and test new behaviors. Online sessions let her coach clients through practical exercises, track mood and behavior changes, and assign short at-home experiments that fit daily life.She also uses trauma-focused therapy when past events keep causing distress. That approach focuses on safely processing difficult memories and building coping skills, with the pace adjusted to what feels manageable for each person during sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Maria works with each person to find what fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review progress and change methods if something isn’t helping.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or between-session reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Tagalog
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