About Maria
Dr. Maria Clapp is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices from Florida and speaks English and Spanish.
She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and need straightforward help sorting what isn’t working in life right now. Her work focuses on practical change rather than labels. Maria draws on client-centered care to build trust and collaboration.
She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas and solution-focused techniques to help people try different ways of thinking and acting.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin by looking at the most pressing problem and what the client wants to change. She helps people break larger issues into small, doable steps. That approach is used across concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction-related problems, and ADHD-related struggles.
Maria also brings experience with parenting programs, anger management, and court-ordered mental health work. She has worked with people facing domestic violence-related matters, legal issues, and social challenges associated with autism spectrum profiles. Her background includes a bachelor’s in psychology, a master’s in mental health counseling, and a doctorate in organizational leadership.
Her style is calm and practical. She aims to help people feel more in charge of daily life. For someone seeking straightforward strategies and steady support, she offers clear steps, coaching elements, and time-tested therapeutic methods.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what she hears, and helps people feel understood before suggesting steps forward. This approach is helpful for people who want a collaborative, nonjudgmental space.Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more effective ones. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and difficulties with attention or motivation by teaching practical skills and short exercises to try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. It uses focused questions and reflective listening to uncover personal goals and boost readiness to try new behaviors.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative process helps tailor care to what actually helps the person make progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful when seeing facial expressions matters, phone calls work well when lower bandwidth is needed, live chat and messaging are convenient for quick check-ins or for fitting therapy into a busy day. These formats make it easier to maintain regular contact and to try techniques in real-life moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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