About Maria
Maria Roman is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut who helps people heal from hard experiences and find steadier ground. She focuses on boosting self-compassion, improving relationships, and easing symptoms of depression and mood shifts. Maria speaks English and Spanish and works with people facing major life changes.
She uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people process trauma and rebuild trust in themselves. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings, such as communication practice and coping skills for intense emotions.
Background and approach
Maria pays attention to how shame, guilt, and past abandonment shape current choices and feelings. Many clients seek her support after separation, during periods of loneliness, or when body image and self-worth become sources of daily pain. She also helps people clarify life purpose and strengthen self-love.
Conversations include exploring forgiveness and rebuilding confidence in relationships. Maria brings a faith-informed perspective for those who want it, integrating Christian values into work when clients request that approach. That option is offered alongside other therapeutic methods and tailored to each person’s needs and beliefs.
Her style is collaborative and warm, with a focus on practical change. With five years of clinical experience, Maria aims to make therapy understandable and doable. She helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and notice real shifts in how they cope with life’s ups and downs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Many of Maria’s sessions use well-established, evidence-based techniques that help people process trauma and change unhelpful patterns. One common approach helps people identify and change negative thought and behavior cycles, offering skills to manage low mood and anxiety and to improve daily functioning. Another approach focuses on examining how past experiences affect current relationships and emotional responses, which can help with trauma, abandonment, and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Maria collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, values, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or new needs emerge, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper interpersonal work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to maintain consistency while working on relationship, trauma, and self-esteem goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English, Spanish