About Maria
Maria Mir welcomes adults feeling overwhelmed by work, relationships, or the daily demands of life. She offers calm, practical support for people who need help sorting through stress, parenting strain, grief, or sudden strong emotions.
Background and approach
Maria’s approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Maria is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, based in California with 18 years of experience.
She focuses on clear, helpful conversations that identify what’s most pressing and what can change. Sessions aim to make daily life easier and more manageable.
She uses client-centered conversations to help people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are offered to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method guide work on relationship and intimacy concerns. Maria also addresses trauma, abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and compassion fatigue.
She blends practical coaching with therapeutic work to support coping, self-esteem, and career-related stress. Her work includes attention to attachment patterns and communication problems.
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, and Urdu. Maria aims to be a steady, nonjudgmental presence where people can talk through immediate problems and build skills for the long term.
To begin, she asks a few questions to match needs and then helps set a plan that fits each person’s life.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience and helps people feel accepted while they work through problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name difficult emotions and improve closeness in relationships through clearer emotional communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what felt useful in past support. Together they decide whether to lean more on CBT skills, emotional processing, or relationship-focused work and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for face-to-face conversations and relationship work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and differing schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Urdu