Maria Woods

Maria Woods is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also supports concerns related to adoption and foster care, hospice and end-of-life questions, postpartum depression, and issues around guilt, shame, and self-love.

In sessions she uses clear, practical conversation. She listens for what matters most to each person and offers tools to manage upsetting thoughts and feelings. Her work pulls from cognitive behavioral methods and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, along with client-centered practices that keep the person’s experience in focus.

People who come for help often want more direction around life purpose, motivation, or a sense of meaning after a big change. She talks through what gets in the way of taking small steps, and practices ways to reduce anxious thinking and build steady habits.

Maria pays attention to multicultural concerns and veteran and armed forces issues when they affect someone’s life. She also addresses obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors with structured techniques that target the patterns keeping a person stuck.

Her sessions aim to be interactive and straightforward. She asks a few questions to clarify goals, then suggests approaches people can try between meetings. To begin, clients follow the site’s match process and schedule an initial appointment.

How ACT, CBT, and client-centered work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting ruled by them and then commit to small actions that align with personal values. It is often used for anxiety, low motivation, and questions about life purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing different behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, worry, or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy places the person's experience at the center of sessions and supports clearer self-understanding and decision making.

Finding the best fit is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that make sense for those goals, and adapt methods based on what helps. Decisions about approach are collaborative and revisited as progress or new concerns emerge.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm session options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time so people can keep momentum between sessions. Licensed professionals can use the same ACT and CBT exercises in virtual meetings as in person, working with clients to practice new skills and plan real-life experiments that transfer to daily routines.