About Maria
Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers practical, down-to-earth psychotherapy. She draws on nearly two decades of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Maria uses straightforward talk and easy tools so people can feel steadier in daily life.
She blends Client-Centered approaches with cognitive and mindfulness techniques to match each person’s needs. That means sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on skills that can be used between appointments.
Background and approach
Maria also includes elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and hypnotherapy when those options fit the person’s goals. Her work often centers on relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and LGBTQ issues. She also addresses problems like attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency, and communication struggles.
Maria supports people coping with the emotional fallout of disasters, separation, and major life shifts. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to the individual. Maria aims to create a calm space where people can talk through fears, set realistic goals, and practice new ways of coping.
She listens for patterns and offers simple exercises to try between sessions. Based in Texas, Maria brings 18 years of clinical experience to her practice. Her listing notes the LCSW credential and the TX LCSW number 104456.
She conducts therapy in English and provides a range of online session formats to suit different schedules and needs.
How Maria’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s concerns. Sessions emphasize the client’s experience and goals, with the therapist following the person’s pace to build trust and clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and for learning simple tools to manage daily stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These techniques can help with anger, relationship struggles, and intense mood swings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maria will discuss options and try methods that match the client’s goals and preferences. Together they decide what to try, review how it’s going, and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful when visual contact helps the work. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and messaging let people send updates between appointments and keep momentum when schedules are busy. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English