Maria Wilson , LCSW

Maria Wilson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of clinical counseling experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family challenges. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take practical steps to feel steadier in day-to-day life.

She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters to each person. Maria draws on client-centered work to follow the person's pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage intense emotions.

Maria has worked broadly with parenting concerns, grief, self-esteem and motivation. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, abandonment issues, and communication or control struggles within families.

Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions aim to build skills you can use between meetings, such as coping strategies, communication tools, and gradual exposure to difficult situations. Maria adapts each plan to match the person's goals and life context.

Based in Indiana, she brings 15 years of counseling practice experience to her online work. She values respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental tone while helping people make real changes in how they cope and connect.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Maria uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities and pace, creating space for them to set goals and steer the conversation. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental setting to sort out feelings and next steps.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing clearer thinking and behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.

Dialectical behavior therapy is part of her toolkit for people who need concrete skills to manage strong emotions and improve relationships. DBT includes breathing and grounding techniques, emotion regulation exercises, and communication skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those needs, and adjust over time. Together they decide what feels most helpful and practical for daily life.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text fits shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other commitments.