About Maria
Maria Perez is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts. She works in both English and Spanish and focuses on practical strategies for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD. Maria emphasizes a respectful, person-centered style and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and help people make sense of their own strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and worry active.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy helps set concrete goals and small steps people can try between sessions. Maria draws on eight years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns. She pays particular attention to caregiver stress, communication problems, impulsivity, and building self-love.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. In a typical session she will ask about what matters most right now, try out practical skills, and check what feels useful. She keeps language simple and tries to offer tools you can use right away, such as breathing techniques, short behavioral experiments, or goal-focused checklists.
Maria encourages people to honor small changes and to move at a comfortable pace. If you’re thinking about starting therapy, she guides the matching and scheduling steps and helps set clear short-term goals to track progress.
How practical approaches work online
Maria uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most to the person, helping them name strengths and priorities. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, respectful space to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is practical for anxiety, stress, impulsivity, and building confidence through repeated skill practice.
Solution-Focused Therapy targets concrete goals and short steps you can try between meetings, which suits people who want measurable progress in a few sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will discuss options and collaborate on which methods fit your goals and preferences. Together you can try an approach for a few sessions and adjust based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone calls can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to work on stress, parenting challenges, and building self-esteem around busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish