About Maria
Maria Lozano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She supports those facing major life changes, compassion fatigue, and struggles with self-esteem. Maria speaks English and Spanish and practices in California.
Maria brings 14 years of focused clinical experience to sessions. She prefers simple, clear conversation and practical steps. People can expect a calm, compassionate presence and space to speak about what feels heavy right now.
Background and approach
Her approach blends several methods to match a person’s needs. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and build small, achievable changes.
Mindfulness techniques and some psychodynamic ideas are used to notice patterns and emotions in the body and mind. Maria also draws on solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals and track progress. Sessions often include breathing or grounding practices and straightforward problem-solving.
The aim is steady, usable tools you can try between visits. She has particular experience supporting people through pregnancy, postpartum concerns, family-of-origin issues, and domestic violence histories. Other areas she addresses include multicultural concerns, isolation, somatization, and mood disorders.
Maria works to honor each person’s strengths while helping them reclaim a sense of agency and balance.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and honoring what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers reflective feedback, and helps people feel heard as they name goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits for mood and anxiety concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and anchor the body during stressful moments.Choosing the right approach usually happens together. Maria will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. She adjusts methods over time so the work fits daily life and feels useful rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone works well for lower bandwidth or when hands-free time is needed, and messaging or chat can support brief check-ins and ongoing reminders. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue steady progress even when life is hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish