Maria Farraye-Biggs , LCSW

Maria Farraye-Biggs is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and women's issues. She approaches each person with warmth and straightforward care. Maria aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard and can work toward practical goals.

She draws on many ways of working depending on what a person needs. Sessions may include gentle exploration of past patterns, hands-on strategies to manage difficult thoughts and feelings, or focused problem-solving to address immediate concerns. She helps people who are navigating life changes, grief, relationship strain, workplace stress, and mood challenges.

Maria speaks English and Spanish and has experience with multicultural concerns, acculturation, and the stressors that can come from prejudice or discrimination. She also supports parents managing ADHD in a child, postpartum changes, and the practical demands of parenting while juggling other responsibilities.

Her style is caring, reflective, and direct. She listens closely, offers feedback, and will both guide and challenge when helpful. Maria encourages people to use their strengths and to set realistic steps toward the life they want.

Clients can expect an interactive process in which the therapist and client shape goals together. Maria believes change takes time, and she stays alongside people as they try new ways of coping and relating. She aims to make therapy respectful and grounded in real-life solutions.

How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, helping people feel understood and encouraging them to set their own goals. It can help with stress, life transitions, and issues where emotional support and clarity are needed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift patterns in close relationships and emotional responses, which can be useful for intimacy concerns and relationship stress.

Maria will work collaboratively to decide which approach or combination fits best. She talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapts the plan as therapy progresses. Finding the right method is part of the work together rather than a one-time decision.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep up momentum between appointments.