About Maria
Maria Picciotti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings ten years of licensed practice to her work in Pennsylvania. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, mood concerns like bipolar disorder and depression, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. Maria aims to meet people where they are and to treat everyone with dignity and respect.
Her approach begins with listening. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs instead of using one fixed method.
Background and approach
That can mean practical skills for managing panic or anxiety, grounding techniques for trauma, or pacing care for someone with mood swings. Maria uses a mix of approaches to fit the situation. She draws on acceptance and commitment methods to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits. Client-centered work keeps the focus on the person’s goals and perspective. She also integrates tools from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or interpersonal skills are needed.
Couples skills from the Gottman Method may appear when relationship patterns are part of the concern. Across methods, Maria emphasizes practical steps that can be used between sessions. If you are nervous about starting therapy, she recognizes that first step takes courage and aims to make scheduling and the first meetings straightforward.
Conversations begin with what matters to you and move at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Maria uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or fear are present. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can help with phobias, social anxiety, or mood concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Maria will listen to your goals and try different methods based on what feels most useful. Together you can decide whether to focus on skill-building, values work, or changing day-to-day habits so therapy fits your life and aims.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for practice and feedback, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep up with therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while using the approaches above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Dissociation
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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