About Maria
Maria Caballero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 22 years of experience. She focuses on practical, respectful care for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and challenges with parenting and relationships. Maria speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations clear and direct so families can move forward.
Maria uses straightforward, person-focused approaches in sessions. She encourages clients to notice patterns in their relationships and reactions, and then try small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns that interfere with daily life. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-based ideas and mindfulness practices. That mix helps people learn different ways to manage strong emotions and improve connections with others.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when people need tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also helps clients who are dealing with life transitions such as career changes, immigration-related stress, midlife questions, or family-of-origin issues. Conversations may focus on building routines, improving sleep, or setting realistic goals for work and relationships.
Maria emphasizes a respectful, culturally aware stance and attends to multicultural concerns and experiences of prejudice or discrimination. She works collaboratively to shape a plan that fits each person’s goals and pace.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Maria often uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is practical and works well for worries, mood struggles, sleep problems, and workplace stress. Attachment-based therapy is also part of her work and focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections, which can help with relationship strain and parenting concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then pick or mix techniques that fit. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel relevant and doable rather than abstract or one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options allow people to fit therapy into busy routines and keep progress moving even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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