- Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- Client-Centered work
- CBT techniques
About Maria
Maria Mir is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical experience. She works with adults managing work stress, relationship strain, parenting demands, grief, trauma, and the overwhelm of day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
Maria focuses on practical, down-to-earth conversations. She listens to what is causing stress and helps people name emotions that feel confusing or sudden. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how emotions shape patterns in close relationships, and she pairs that with client-centered conversations so clients feel heard as they sort things out.
Her approach also brings in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes. This can be useful for anxiety, self-esteem concerns, eating-related struggles, and coping with life changes. Maria can incorporate work on trauma and inner child themes when those issues come up.
Sessions include practical planning, skill practice, and checking what helps between visits. She helps people untangle communication problems, commitment or intimacy concerns, and the effects of caregiver stress or chronic illness. The focus is on clear steps someone can take to feel steadier in daily life.
Maria’s background spans family systems, attachment-related concerns, and relational work informed by the Gottman Method and existential questions about meaning and values. If someone needs support balancing career demands, parenting, or recovering from past hurts, she offers steady, straightforward clinical support.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Maria uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify core emotions and how those feelings affect relationship patterns. EFT focuses on the emotional experience and changing how people respond to each other, which can help with intimacy and communication concerns.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening and reflecting so a person can make sense of their own experience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolbox too, offering concrete exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for anxiety and stress.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about what feels most useful and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. That means sessions can emphasize emotion work, practical CBT skills, or a mix depending on what helps.
Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow quieter check-ins during a break at work. Therapists and licensed professionals working remotely can also use shorter or longer visits to match a client's needs, and practical tools and worksheets can be assigned between meetings to reinforce progress.
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Experience
18+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English, Hindi, Urdu
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She helps adults with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, intimacy issues, eating struggles, and career or life-change coping.
What therapeutic style does she use?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered methods and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address emotions, relationship patterns, and thought-behavior links.
How much experience does she have?
Maria has 18 years of experience working in clinical settings with adults on a range of stress and relationship concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a California LMFT and practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment work?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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