About Maria
Maria Phillips is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She speaks English and brings a calm, practical style to sessions.
Maria uses evidence-based techniques and a trauma-aware stance to help people feel steadier in daily life. Sessions focus on real problems and concrete skills. She helps clients name what is most difficult and try small changes that make a difference.
Background and approach
Her background includes a master’s degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Drexel University. Maria has three years of professional experience supporting adults through life transitions, loss, and interpersonal conflict. She has also worked with people facing caregiver stress, family-of-origin issues, and impulsivity concerns.
In conversation she aims to match interventions to each person’s values and cultural identity. Therapy may include emotion regulation tools, acceptance-based strategies, and work on relationship patterns. The goal is to increase coping skills and reduce intense reactions to stress and panic.
Sessions may address practical areas like work stress, career decisions, isolation, and finding life purpose. Maria helps people develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. She encourages steady progress through manageable steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Maria often uses acceptance-based strategies that help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. This kind of work supports coping with anxiety, panic, grief, and the ups and downs of ADHD-related stress. It usually focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward what matters to them.She also draws on dialectical behavioral ideas to teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and impulsive reactions. Those skills can include breathing and grounding techniques, step-by-step distress tolerance practices, and clearer communication methods for strained relationships.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the client’s life and adjust the plan as needed over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or maintaining progress between longer sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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