About Maria
Maria Wells is a licensed professional counselor in Wyoming with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem. Maria speaks plainly and meets people where they are.
She encourages small steps that build toward clearer coping and safer choices. Her approach begins with listening closely to each person’s story. She emphasizes the client’s strengths and decisions.
Sessions center on what feels manageable and useful for daily life.
Background and approach
Maria helps people name patterns that get in the way and identify alternatives that fit their routine. She draws from several methods to tailor sessions to the issue at hand. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
EMDR can be used to address intense trauma reactions when appropriate. Motivational Interviewing supports people who are ready to change addictive behaviors. Maria also uses client-centered and narrative techniques to help people feel heard and to rewrite the stories they tell about themselves.
This can be helpful with grief, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family stress, or codependency. Her style is collaborative and goal-focused, but paced to each person’s comfort. Parents reading this will find straightforward language and short-term tools they can try between sessions.
She offers options that fit busy schedules and different comfort levels with therapy. Taking the first step often feels hard, and Maria aims to make the next steps clearer and more doable.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Maria uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a space where the person leads the conversation and choices. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the client’s priorities so they feel understood and in control of goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks concerns into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. CBT offers concrete exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits.
EMDR is another option she uses for trauma work when appropriate; it involves guided processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and reactions over time.
Figuring out the right approach is a shared process. Maria talks with each person about their goals, past experiences with therapy, and what they feel comfortable trying. Together they choose methods and adjust as progress happens so the plan fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill coaching, or maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English