Maria Holguin, LMFT
Compassionate, practical support for life’s hard moments
About Maria
Maria Holguin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports individuals facing family conflict and loss.
Background and approach
Maria speaks English and practices in California, drawing on 12 years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy as a partnership.
Maria believes each person knows their story best and brings practical strengths into sessions. She focuses on building motivation and confidence through steady, realistic steps people can use between meetings.
In session she offers a calm, direct style that balances listening with guidance. Conversations aim to identify patterns that keep problems stuck and to try new ways of coping.
Sessions include straightforward tools and small experiments clients can try in daily life. Maria values encouragement and realistic goal-setting.
She helps people break big problems into manageable tasks and track progress over time. This practical focus is meant to reduce overwhelm and build confidence through repeated successes.
Her background includes a dozen years of working with individuals on mood, anxiety, family stress, and bereavement. Maria frames the work as collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
She supports people through both short-term problem solving and longer personal changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Maria uses well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and behavior change. One common approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety and depression; it helps by teaching practical tools people can use when stress rises. Another approach centers on coping with loss and building resilience after grief, using gradual processing and small routines to restore daily structure and meaning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment is adjusted over time based on what is helpful, and clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and flexibility for people with busy schedules or who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into everyday life while working with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English