- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Maria
Maria Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical support for trauma, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Maria brings 15 years of clinical counseling experience to her work in Indiana and Nevada as an LCSW.
Her sessions have a straightforward, respectful tone. She listens first, then tailors the conversation to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Parents often come for help with behavior, communication, or the pressure of balancing caregiving and personal wellbeing. She also supports people facing trauma, mood concerns, and major life transitions. Maria uses a mix of approaches to match the problem at hand.
She draws on client-centered methods to build rapport and CBT techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also uses DBT skills for emotion regulation and EMDR when trauma memories are part of the issue. In practical terms she works with goals you set together.
Sessions focus on clear tools, small experiments to try between meetings, and tracking progress over time. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. Maria’s background includes significant work with teens and families across multiple settings.
Her experience covers a wide range of concerns from parenting and fatherhood issues to grief, adoption and foster care topics. She aims to make therapy accessible and down-to-earth for people reaching out during stressful times.
What Maria works with
Everything Maria lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Maria helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Maria lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting and trauma work
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person's goals lead the way. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to set their own pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete strategies to shift them, which can help with anxiety, mood, and parenting routines. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a structured method used when trauma memories cause strong reactions; it aims to reduce distress linked to those memories.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide what methods seem most useful based on goals and preferences. Sessions may start broadly and then focus on CBT skills, DBT strategies, or EMDR work when that fits the situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when someone has limited bandwidth or needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send quick updates, ask questions between sessions, or use brief coaching during a busy day. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit parenting schedules and other time constraints.
Questions people ask about Maria
What concerns does Maria help address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self-esteem, grief, anger, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, relationship and family problems, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and practical. She listens first, then works collaboratively to set goals and try specific tools between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience as a professional clinical counselor and a longer career working with children and families across different settings.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds the LCSW credential and is licensed in Nevada and Indiana; her practice is based in Indiana.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available online?
Appointments can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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