About Maria
Maria Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood struggles. She offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by parenting demands, relationship strain, grief, or life changes. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people take the next right step.
Maria uses practical talk and skill-building in sessions. She works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on Client-Centered approaches to listen deeply and make space for each person’s priorities. When trauma is part of the picture, Maria integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing methods to address painful memories and reduce their hold. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings run high.
She has 15 years of clinical experience and holds LCSW credentials in Indiana and Nevada. Sessions are adapted to a person’s daily life, so tools and homework are realistic and manageable. Maria encourages small, clear goals to build confidence over time.
People who choose her often want help with parenting stress, communication problems, eating concerns, or coping with chronic illness and caregiving strain. She also supports those facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and complicated family dynamics. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works.
Maria aims to make the start of therapy easier by setting clear steps and immediate, usable strategies.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship, with the therapist following your lead and helping you set priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when past events keep causing strong reactions and involves structured processing to lessen their emotional intensity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. She checks in about what helps and adjusts plans so the therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or parenting schedules while keeping focus on practical tools and real-life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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