About Maria
Maria Woods is a licensed social worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. Maria meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward feeling better.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are designed around each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. She uses techniques that help people notice thoughts, choose actions that match their values, and practice new habits that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Maria draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape her work. That means she helps clients clarify what matters to them, talk through difficult emotions, and try small, manageable behavior changes. She frames exercises in everyday language and checks in often to adapt the plan.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, end-of-life and hospice concerns, loneliness, life purpose, veteran and armed forces issues, multicultural concerns, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, postpartum depression, and building self-love. These topics are woven into sessions when they relate to a person’s goals. Maria approaches every person with respect and compassion.
She encourages clear, honest conversation and practical homework between sessions. If someone is ready to make a change, she helps them take steady steps toward it.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Maria uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. That approach focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward them, which can help with anxiety, grief, and low motivation.Client-Centered Therapy forms the backbone of her approach by prioritizing a respectful, empathetic relationship. This method emphasizes listening, validation, and supporting each person to find their own solutions to self-esteem and life-purpose concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavior changes. CBT exercises can reduce symptoms of depression, compulsive thinking, and anxiety through practical steps and short experiments.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Maria works with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, preferences, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on how a person responds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people have a full conversation when they prefer face-to-face contact. Phone sessions are useful if bandwidth is limited or when someone needs to fit a session into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short reflections, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching each person’s daily routine.
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- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English