About Maria
Maria Coyle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with extensive experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and ADHD. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients find ways forward. Her manner is calm and focused, aimed at making sessions useful from the first meeting.
Maria draws on 25 years of work in schools and personal settings. That background means she has worked with adolescents and adults from varied cultural backgrounds.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and helps people set clear goals for change. Sessions are collaborative. Maria helps people pinpoint patterns that cause trouble and then tests small changes to see what helps.
She mixes client-centered listening with techniques that address thoughts and behaviors, and she uses motivational methods when people need support making tough changes. She also supports those dealing with eating and food-related issues, self-harm thoughts, personality concerns, and challenges common to young adults.
When anger, parenting strain, relationship conflict, or addictive patterns get in the way, she helps people develop practical coping steps. Maria aims to create simple, workable plans rather than long lists of tasks. She encourages steady progress through short-term goals and regular check-ins.
The goal is to leave each session with at least one clear step to try before the next meeting.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps clarify priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a trusting space to work through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to see what helps. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration can change over time as needs shift or new challenges arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick skills practice, or working through small tasks between longer sessions.
These online options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain regular contact, and try approaches that suit individual schedules and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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