About Maria
Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 18 years of clinical experience. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk about stress, relationships, and daily challenges. Her style is straightforward and warm so parents who are worried can read and understand what to expect.
Maria blends client-centered work with practical tools so sessions feel useful and grounded. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT strategies for managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness and hypnotherapy approaches when those fit a person’s goals. Many people come to her for help with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and ADHD-related struggles. She also addresses parenting stress, relationship conflicts, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and work-related concerns.
Other areas she supports include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and challenges after separation or divorce. Maria relies on a person-first approach rather than forcing someone into one method. Together they set clear, achievable goals and move at a pace that feels manageable.
Sessions focus on practical steps, coping skills, and understanding patterns that keep problems going. She practices from Texas and offers sessions in English. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Work from Rutgers University and a Master of Social Work from New York University.
Those degrees and her clinical years shape a blend of talk-based work with concrete skills people can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard, clarify their goals, and shape therapy around what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and build behaviors that reduce anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs better coping skills for relationships or stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made together until a comfortable path forward is found.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging makes regular sessions easier to keep. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people check in between sessions or share quick updates. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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