About Maria
Maria Grimshaw-Clark greets people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship strain. She helps clients sort through painful emotions and find clearer choices. Maria aims to replace worn-out coping habits with more useful ones, and to rebuild healthier connections with others.
Maria has worked as a clinical social worker for 34 years. She holds an LCSW and has supported people facing trauma, abuse, anger, bipolar disorder, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
She also focuses on common family issues such as blended family stress, caregiver strain, codependency, infidelity, and communication problems. Her approach blends straightforward, practical tools with attention to how relationships shape feelings. She uses client-centered conversations to understand what matters most to each person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems stuck. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving emotional balance. Maria draws on elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are a main concern.
Mindfulness practices are offered to increase awareness and reduce reactivity. Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and goal-focused. Clients can expect clear steps, skill practice, and gentle challenges when needed.
Maria works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens first and follows the client's priorities. It is useful when someone needs a space to sort feelings and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them. It works well for anxiety, depression, and repetitive thought patterns that get in the way.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools can be helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions or who want better ways to respond in tense moments. Maria will work together with each person to choose which approaches match their goals and life situation. That decision is collaborative - she will explain options, try things, and adjust methods based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing skills practice between appointments. These formats make it simpler to attend appointments around work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on meaningful change with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Virginia
- Languages
- English