Maria Regla

Maria Regla is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, intimacy issues, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she accepts international clients.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and mindfulness practices. In a session she listens, helps you name the problem, and offers small, concrete tools to try between meetings.

Maria often helps people dealing with caregiver strain, separation or divorce, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and the fallout from disasters or traumatic events. She also supports those wrestling with guilt, shame, isolation, control issues, or questions about life purpose and midlife changes. First responder concerns and intellectual disability are included among her focus areas.

Clients can expect collaborative conversations that aim to improve communication, reduce overwhelming reactions, and build practical coping skills. She draws on bilingual experience to work across cultural differences and language needs.

For people unsure what comes next, Maria emphasizes steady, doable steps rather than big promises. To begin, visitors follow the site’s matching process to set up an initial session and discuss goals.

How Maria’s approaches translate to online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to you. In practice this means conversations that prioritize your priorities and help you clarify what feels most pressing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, panic, and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by guiding attention while processing past events; it is commonly applied for trauma and post-traumatic stress.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest one or more methods to try. You and the therapist can adjust the plan as you learn what helps and what does not.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when full sessions are not possible, and reduce travel time. Therapists will discuss how sessions can be arranged to match your daily life and commitments, and will plan practical homework and follow-ups that fit your routine.