About Maria
Maria Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She supports those coping with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, grief, self-esteem issues, eating concerns, and major life changes. Maria uses down-to-earth language and a practical focus in sessions so people can start making small changes right away.
Maria brings 15 years of clinical counseling experience. She is licensed in Indiana as an LCSW and holds an additional Nevada credential.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with people facing complicated life situations and strong reactions to loss or upheaval. In sessions she listens first and adapts the approach to each person’s needs. Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused.
She combines talk, skills practice, and coping tools so people can try new responses between sessions. Maria draws from several therapeutic approaches. She uses client-centered methods to prioritize what matters to the person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and develop alternative habits. For trauma, she may integrate methods intended to reduce the hold of painful memories. Her style is warm and direct.
She aims to create a space where people feel respected and heard. Maria encourages small, achievable steps and tracks progress as goals evolve.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. Online sessions using this approach prioritize your voice, goals, and pace so conversations stay relevant and respectful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new habits. In remote sessions this often looks like making a plan together, practicing realistic thinking, and checking progress between meetings with exercises or short tasks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. When used online, DBT often involves skill coaching, brief check-ins, and step-by-step practice of techniques like grounding and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use nonverbal cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English