About Maria
Maria Luna is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin. She draws on practical, focused approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. Maria uses clear methods to guide clients through life changes and relationship strain.
She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and a client-centered attitude. Sessions often include learning simple skills for coping, noticing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing small behavior changes. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help clarifying goals and finding internal motivation.
Background and approach
Maria has five years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. She helps people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, body image struggles, chronic illness, and issues related to identity and sexual orientation. She also supports folks coping with career challenges, ADHD, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Her work pays attention to patterns from attachment and abandonment wounds, and to feelings like guilt, shame, and grief. Conversations in sessions are straightforward and geared toward practical steps a person can take between meetings. Maria aims to make therapy useful and doable for everyday life.
Clients meet with Maria in ways that fit their schedules, using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She holds licenses listed as MI LMSW 6801120386 and WI LCSW 12353 - 123, and practices in Wisconsin.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, grief, and major life changes by shifting attention toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions affect one another and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for stress, depression, and managing anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of counseling. Maria will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that may mix ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing based on what helps the individual make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer quick, ongoing check-ins and a way to fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English