About Maura
Maura Callary is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting strain, grief, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
Maura keeps sessions straightforward and calm so people can talk about hard things without feeling judged. She creates a space where feelings and worries can be named and understood.
Maura draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people untangle relationship patterns and build steadier connections. She also uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help clients notice what matters to them and make choices that fit their values.
Her background includes long-term work with people facing dual diagnosis, autism, foster care experiences, and challenges linked to the juvenile justice system. That history shaped a practical style focused on clear goals and steps people can try between sessions.
Maura listens for strengths and small changes clients can build on. Sessions aim to clarify what is causing distress, reduce overwhelming feelings, and identify workable next steps.
She supports people coping with life transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, sleep and eating concerns, and issues of identity and intimacy. Maura encourages small experiments clients can use to test new ways of handling old problems.
Maura welcomes people who want a steady, respectful approach to change. Her work is down-to-earth and collaborative, helping clients find clearer daily routines, better communication, and more reliable emotional balance.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions can help clients notice patterns in how they seek closeness or pull away and practice different responses in real time. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience in the moment - the therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the client to promote self-understanding and growth.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maura will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in over the first few sessions and adjusts the mix of attachment, client-centered, mindfulness, or existential strategies as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during the day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or have shorter touchpoints when a quick check or reflection is helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English