About Maria
Maria Regla helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, intimacy issues, or low self-esteem. She also supports people facing big life changes and the everyday strain of caregiving and isolation.
Background and approach
Maria speaks English and Spanish and brings 20 years of experience to her work in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her approach is straightforward and warm.
She listens first and tailors each session to what the person needs that week. Sessions focus on building practical skills for coping with panic, grief, guilt, or the fallout from traumatic events.
Maria uses clear, simple tools people can try between sessions. Clients can expect a mix of conversation and hands-on strategies.
She draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices and DBT skills help with intense emotions and grounding when panic or flashbacks occur.
For people affected by trauma, Maria incorporates EMDR-informed methods alongside talk therapy to reduce the power of painful memories. She also helps people improve communication, manage control issues, and find direction during midlife changes or after divorce and separation.
Her bilingual background supports culturally responsive care for English and Spanish speakers. Maria aims to make therapy feel understandable and usable, helping people develop resilience and reconnect with what matters to them.
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for building trust and exploring values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and panic symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, pairs guided processing with focused attention to help lessen the emotional charge of traumatic memories.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptom patterns, and what feels most comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for richer face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care across schedules and time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish