About Maria
Maria Serrano is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. She greets clients in a warm, direct way and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She aims to help people reconnect with themselves and others.
Sessions focus on noticing patterns that get in the way and building on small, practical strengths. Maria offers therapy in both English and Spanish.
Background and approach
Her work combines an existential-humanistic outlook with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and internal family systems. She also draws from solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and notice progress. This blend lets conversations be both thoughtful and action-oriented.
Maria keeps sessions collaborative. She helps clients define what matters to them and then maps steps toward those goals. Topics she commonly addresses include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, commitment worries, and challenges around forgiveness, guilt, and shame.
She has supported people dealing with life transitions such as divorce and aging, and she also works with issues like hoarding, impulsivity, and dependent personality patterns. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, focused on practical change rather than jargon. Clients can expect a therapist who listens closely, offers concrete strategies, and checks in about what is working.
Maria welcomes people who want to understand themselves better and make lasting changes.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Maria blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral strategies and internal family systems work. Client-centered work means she focuses on understanding your experience and offering empathy so you can explore feelings and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and builds practical skills to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of yourself, helping you understand inner conflicts and restore balance.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. She works with each person to identify goals and then tries methods that match those goals and preferences. Sessions may start with open conversation and then shift to skill practice, parts work, or short-term goal planning as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish