About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address trauma-related concerns.
Parents reading on a phone will find straightforward language and a calm, steady tone. She starts by listening to the person's story and identifying strengths that can help them move forward. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable changes.
For people facing fear-based problems such as phobias, she works to break down avoidance and build confidence in everyday situations.
Background and approach
Her approach combines several well-known methods to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions.
For trauma-linked concerns, she may use EMDR to address painful memories. Dr. Peters brings two decades of counseling experience to her work.
She frames progress as steady and practical rather than fast or dramatic. She respects each person's pace and encourages small wins that add up over time. She offers sessions in English and accepts clients in Texas and internationally.
Practical details like scheduling, formats, and billing are discussed during the first steps so people can find an arrangement that fits their life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. Peters uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this works well for anxiety, phobias, and stress because it focuses on practical skills and steady practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used for trauma-related symptoms and targets distressing memories to reduce their emotional charge.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t helping, she adjusts the plan so work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that suit their day. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deep work. Phone sessions are a good option when a quieter or lower-bandwidth interaction is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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