Maria ("Mali") Jimenez , LCSW, CSW, LICSW

Maria "Mali" Jimenez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and self-esteem issues. She brings seven years of practice and works with concerns including depression, grief, addiction, LGBT matters, and intimacy-related problems. Mali offers sessions in English and Spanish and accepts international clients.

She favors a straightforward, compassionate style. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Mali encourages clients to take the lead while she offers guidance, feedback, and practical tools to reach stated goals.

Mali combines attention to the body with thinking-based strategies. She uses mindfulness and somatic ideas to help people notice feelings and bodily reactions. She also applies cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and actions.

She pays attention to attachment history and family patterns. A psychodynamic lens helps identify early relationship wounds and repetitive dynamics. Addressing those roots can change long-standing patterns in relationships and self-view.

Mali also brings motivational interviewing techniques when people want help increasing readiness for change. That approach supports movement toward goals without pressure. Her aim is to build skills people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shaped expectations and reactions in current relationships. Online sessions can help people notice patterns and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries in daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers concrete exercises and homework that translate well to video or messaging formats, helping with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to notice thoughts, emotions, and body cues. These practices support regulation and can be integrated into short check-ins during phone or text sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort with online formats. That decision is revisited as work progresses so adjustments can be made together.

Online work offers real practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into daily life.