About Maria
Maria Concepcion is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings 13 years of experience to her practice in Florida. She aims to make sessions feel like a calm conversation rather than a formal appointment. Her manner is direct but warm, and she asks for active participation between meetings to keep progress moving.
She helps people facing stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with addiction or codependency.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with life changes, work or career stress, and issues with self-esteem. Sessions can include practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and emotions. Her work often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior.
She pairs this with other approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas when they fit a person’s goals. Therapy includes discussion, short exercises, and written or messaging tasks to practice new skills. Maria describes her approach as collaborative.
She will work with each person to build a personalized plan and may ask for messaging and homework between sessions. This keeps therapy active and focused on real-life changes. She can speak English and Spanish and has experience supporting concerns that range from trauma and abuse to parenting stress and compassion fatigue.
Her practice blends practical strategies with moments of reflection, including spiritual perspectives if a person wishes to include them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Maria often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change feelings. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday patterns that get in the way of functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward the values and actions that matter to them. This approach can be helpful for chronic worry, avoidance, and life transitions. Attachment-Based ideas guide how she looks at connection patterns formed over time and how they affect current relationships and intimacy concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish