About Maria
Maria Capehart is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with five years of experience. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and offers counseling for adults. Maria focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns.
Her approach combines Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-focused ideas. She listens first and helps people set real goals. Sessions usually involve learning new ways to handle stress, changing unhelpful thoughts, and building confidence.
Background and approach
Maria has worked with people from immigrant and minority communities and with members of the LGBT community. She has experience addressing co-occurring mental health concerns, addiction, identity questions, and immigration-related stress. She also helps with parenting challenges, career stress, grief, and life transitions.
In sessions she emphasizes collaboration. Clients are treated as the experts on their lives while she offers guidance and tools. That can mean practicing new coping skills, finding internal resources, or reshaping patterns that cause repeated problems.
Practical changes and small steps are central to her work. Maria helps people build routines and skills that fit their daily life. She aims to support steady progress rather than quick fixes.
To begin, a short matching process helps pair a person with her schedule. Maria uses clear, direct language during sessions and makes space for people to share in either English or Spanish.
Therapeutic approaches for online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping people find their own solutions. The therapist offers acceptance and gentle guidance so clients can build self-confidence and make choices that fit their values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress by teaching specific skills and homework to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the difficulties a person brings to decide which methods to emphasize. That decision is made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact for fuller conversations. Phone sessions work well for those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to continue regular work on goals without extra travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish