About Maria
Maria Gimenez-Cruz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the day-to-day strain of parenting. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in Florida. Maria focuses on practical skills that help clients feel more capable and steady in their lives.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions begin by identifying strengths and small, realistic goals. She then works with clients to practice tools they can use between visits, such as breathing exercises, thought‑recording, or short behavior experiments.
Background and approach
Maria draws from several well-known approaches: client-centered therapy to center the person’s goals, cognitive behavioral techniques to address thinking and behavior patterns, and mindfulness to build calm and focus. She also uses narrative ideas to help people make sense of difficult experiences and motivational interviewing to support change when motivation feels low.
With nine years of experience, Maria has supported people through trauma, post-traumatic stress, immigration-related stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses ADHD-related challenges alongside sleep problems, anger, relationship stress, and somatic complaints. Therapy sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Maria asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their availability. Her approach emphasizes steady progress, practical skills, and treating each person with respect and empathy.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Maria uses client-centered therapy to make the person’s goals the starting point; sessions focus on listening carefully, reflecting what matters to the client, and building from existing strengths. This approach helps when someone needs validation and a clear space to sort priorities and values.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers simple exercises to test unhelpful beliefs, change patterns of avoidance, and try new behaviors that ease anxiety, low mood, or ADHD-related functioning challenges.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Maria will discuss options with each person and adapt techniques to the client’s goals, pace, and preferences. She aims to co-design a plan that mixes short-term problem solving and longer-term skill building.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, shorter text check-ins work well for brief support between appointments, and live chat can suit quick problem-solving or scheduling. These options increase flexibility for people juggling work, family, or other demands while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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