About Maria
Maria Del Carmen Reyna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and the effects of past trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in California. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at people who feel stuck or overwhelmed and want clear steps forward.
She focuses on how early attachment and life events shape current patterns. Sessions look at old coping habits that made sense then but now cause distress.
Background and approach
The work mixes talking through those patterns with learning skills to feel steadier day to day. Maria uses a mix of therapies to meet practical needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship wounds, client-centered listening to make space for each person, and cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and DBT strategies are also used to manage intense feelings when needed. In sessions she aims to be both warm and concrete. People practice breathing and grounding skills, try small behavioral changes, and talk about what gets in the way of trust and connection.
The pace is tailored to each person’s comfort level. Her approach suits someone who wants to understand why they repeat certain patterns and who also wants hands-on tools to feel calmer. Maria helps clients set manageable goals and figure out what works for them in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Maria often uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationship experiences shape current trust and closeness. This helps people understand repeating patterns in their relationships and where walls or worry began. Client-centered therapy is also central - it means sessions focus on the person in front of her, with nonjudgmental listening and support to guide the pace.She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and routines. These strategies help with anxiety, low mood, and choices that keep someone stuck. Together, these approaches address both understanding and practical change, so therapy feels meaningful and doable.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Maria will work with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time, checking in about what helps and what needs to change so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Chat or text sessions work well for short updates, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish