About Maria
Maria Gonzalez is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of practice in Florida. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, depression, and low self-esteem. She also works with obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and specific phobias.
Her approach is respectful, direct, and grounded in real-life goals. She listens first and adapts the conversation to each person. Sessions focus on building skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Maria emphasizes practical steps alongside deeper reflection to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Her work blends several well-known methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation focused on the person’s experience and priorities. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Maria tailors plans to fit what a person needs and what fits their life.
She aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first few sessions. Her style is compassionate but goal-oriented, helping people move toward clearer choices and steadier mood. Sessions are available in English and Spanish.
People should expect straightforward talk, concrete strategies, and support for putting changes into practice. If someone wants to try different tools, she will adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, focusing the conversation on what matters most to the person and helping them set meaningful goals. This approach is helpful when someone needs a space to be heard and to clarify what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies to shift them. It is useful for anxiety, phobias, and obsessive thoughts because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practices new responses.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings skills for handling strong emotions, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving coping when stress feels overwhelming. It supports people who need both emotional validation and clear skill-building.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan over time based on what’s working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when lower bandwidth is needed, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging makes brief updates or reminders easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent contact between sessions.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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