About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can take right now. She works with individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, stress, relationship concerns, anger, addictions, grief, and a range of other life challenges.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and noticing strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she helps people set clear goals and choose straightforward skills to try between meetings. The work often includes talking through difficult memories, building new ways to manage intense feelings, and improving everyday communication patterns. Peters draws from a few established therapy styles and adapts them to each person.
That can mean focusing on attachment patterns that shape relationships, using cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, or applying trauma-focused methods for upsetting memories. She keeps explanations simple and practical so people can use what they learn right away.
Over two decades of practice have given her a broad view of common struggles, from parenting stress and caregiving burden to body image, eating and sleeping problems, and complex grief. She also supports people navigating ADHD, bipolar concerns, and co-occurring conditions. Sessions are offered in English and can be held online to fit busy schedules.
Dr. Peters emphasizes steady progress, gentle challenge, and clear tools people can practice between sessions.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and trust in relationships. It helps people notice how early bonds affect current relationships and then try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps people process upsetting memories and reduce their emotional intensity when those memories come up.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest one or a combination of methods to try. Strategies are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the person wants to work on.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face without traveling. Phone sessions can be used when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection between sessions and are useful for brief updates or check-ins. These options increase flexibility and accessibility while allowing the therapist to apply the chosen approaches effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English