- Focus on relationships
- Trauma-informed care
- Practical skills building
About Maria
Maria Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of clinical counseling experience. She focuses on common and painful concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem struggles. She talks directly and calmly, helping people take the next step when life feels overwhelming.
She has a long history working with teens and families and brings practical care to sessions. Maria emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion and adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs. She helps people break problems into manageable steps and build clearer patterns in everyday life.
Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and existential ideas when they fit the situation. These methods are offered as part of collaborative work to reduce distress and increase coping skills.
Maria holds LCSW credentials in Indiana and Nevada and draws on three decades of professional experience working with children and family contexts. She describes therapy as a shared process and aims to create straightforward goals and skills that translate to daily life.
If you want to explore next steps, she asks clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a session that fits their timing. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How Maria’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through feelings and decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches clear skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds practical emotion regulation and interpersonal tools useful for strong moods and relationship conflicts.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. Maria will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and personality. That collaborative process means trying different tools and seeing what helps over time rather than promising a single quick fix.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change. Because specific session formats were not listed in the biography, confirm current session options before booking so you know what is available. Talk with the therapist about how sessions can be scheduled to suit work, parenting, or school commitments and whether shorter check-ins or longer weekly sessions would work better for your routine.
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Experience
15+ years
Credentials
Indiana, Nevada
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Maria help with?
She supports people working through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self-esteem issues, grief, parenting concerns, codependency, and related challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Maria uses a direct, respectful approach that focuses on practical steps and skill building. Conversations are tailored to each person and aim to make change manageable.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of professional clinical counseling experience and a total of about 30 years working in related roles with children and family contexts.
Which credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and practices in Indiana with an additional LCSW credential in Nevada.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.