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Virtual Therapy for New York & Massachusetts
Therapy where you're a partner, not a patient
I'm Maria, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen-plus years of experience. I have expertise in my field, but you are the expert in your life. The most effective growth and healing happens when we collaborate: we'll explore your past experiences and figure out the way forward that best fits for you, personally.
NY LCSW #087032 | MA LICSW #1140891Accepting New Clients
15+ Years
Clinical Experience
NY + MA
Licensed in Two States
EMDR
Trained Since 2021
100% AI-Free
Your Words Stay Private
You've Been Carrying This Longer Than You Needed To
Maybe it looks like a mind that will not stop running worst-case scenarios, a flatness that has drained the color from things you used to love, or relationships where you keep abandoning yourself to keep the peace. Maybe you have already done therapy, understand exactly where it all comes from, and still feel the old reactions firing anyway.
That gap between knowing and feeling is precisely where my work lives. Insight matters, and it is rarely enough on its own. The approaches I use target where old experiences actually live: in memory, in the body, and in your patterns of attachment.
How I Help
Virtual therapy for teens and adults across New York and Massachusetts, in the areas where my training and experience run deepest.
Anxiety Therapy
Therapy for constant worry, overthinking, tension, and the exhausting feeling of always being on alert, offered virtually to teens and adults across New York and Massachusetts.
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Therapy for persistent low mood, numbness, loss of interest, and the heaviness that makes ordinary days feel impossible, offered virtually across New York and Massachusetts.
Explore this supportComplex Trauma Therapy
EMDR-informed therapy for the lasting effects of prolonged or repeated trauma: hypervigilance, emotional waves, a distorted sense of self, and relationships that feel unsafe.
Explore this supportPeople Pleasing & Boundaries Therapy
Therapy for the exhausting habit of putting everyone else first: difficulty saying no, fear of disappointing people, resentment, and losing track of what you actually want.
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Individual therapy for painful relationship patterns, recurring conflict, trust struggles, and the disorientation of breakups, whether you are partnered, dating, or newly single. Couples therapy is also offered.
Explore this supportLGBTQIA+ & Identity Therapy
Affirming therapy for exploring sexuality, gender, and identity, coping with discrimination, navigating family and cultural pressures, and the stress of moving through systems not built for you.
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Meet Maria
NY LCSW #087032 | MA LICSW #1140891
MSW, NYU Silver School of Social Work
I'm a therapist working virtually in New York and Massachusetts with teens and adults, specializing in anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and complex trauma. My approach is warm, open, and direct: I will help you see the patterns that are not serving you, without shame or judgment.
Over fifteen-plus years I've worked in community mental health, integrated care, and private practice, and I've trained continuously in EMDR since 2021, most recently in Relational EMDR. That depth matters, because the therapist you choose shapes what becomes possible.
More About MariaA Commitment You Won't Find Everywhere
This Is an AI-Free Practice
A growing number of therapy platforms record, transcribe, and process sessions with AI tools, often without clients fully realizing it. I have made the opposite choice. No AI note-takers, no transcription software, nothing that stores or shares what you say.
Therapy only works when you can say the unsayable. That requires knowing, with certainty, that your words stay in the room.
Read the Privacy CommitmentHow I Work
Five approaches, combined around your history and goals rather than forced into a one-size-fits-all program.
EMDR Therapy
An evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess painful memories and stuck beliefs, so past experiences stop driving present-day anxiety, reactivity, and self-doubt.
Learn how this worksAttachment-Based Therapy
Therapy grounded in how your earliest bonds shaped the way you connect, trust, and protect yourself, and how those patterns can change in adulthood.
Learn how this worksRelational Therapy
A collaborative approach where the relationship between you and your therapist becomes a living laboratory for understanding and changing how you connect with everyone else.
Learn how this worksQuestions People Ask Before Reaching Out
I am currently accepting new clients. The first step is a free 25-minute consultation, usually scheduled within the same week you reach out. If we decide to work together, your first full session typically follows within one to two weeks.
All sessions are virtual, so you can be located anywhere in New York or Massachusetts. Clients join from city apartments, home offices, upstate towns, and Boston suburbs, and the work is equally effective in all of them.
EMDR helps most when something from your past keeps intruding on your present: memories, reactions, or beliefs about yourself that logic cannot budge. The free consultation is where we assess whether EMDR, talk therapy, or a blend of both fits your situation.
I do not use AI note-takers, transcription services, or any tool that records or shares session content. What you say in session stays between you and me, and that commitment is written into my privacy policy.
Intake sessions are $275 and ongoing 50-minute sessions are $250. I am an out-of-network (OON) provider, so I confirm coverage details with you first, support you in claiming out-of-network reimbursement, and hold a limited number of sliding scale spots.
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The Hardest Step Is the First Message
A free 25-minute consultation, by phone or video, no obligation. Tell me what's going on, ask anything you want, and see whether working together feels right.