About Maria
Maria Capehart is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with five years of experience in the mental health field. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and offers counseling in both languages. Maria focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more in control.
She uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and motivational interviewing to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
How Maria works
Sessions are focused on clear goals, small behavioral changes, and building useful skills. Maria helps people rethink unhelpful beliefs and develop new ways to handle stress and emotions. Maria has experience addressing depression, anxiety, addictions, and mood concerns, as well as relationship and intimacy-related issues.
She also works with people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, ADHD, and questions around gender and identity. Additional focus areas include communication problems, codependency, impulse control, and life purpose. Her style is supportive and goal-oriented.
She encourages clients to set realistic steps and to notice progress along the way. Maria aims to help people build confidence, improve coping, and find clearer direction when life feels overwhelming. Clients meet to identify strengths, map out changes, and practice skills for daily life.
Sessions center on what the person wants to achieve and on practical strategies to get there.
Maria lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Maria works with
The areas below are the ones Maria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approach and online options for therapy
Maria blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person's lead, listens closely, and helps people clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change and to build momentum toward personal goals. That approach is useful for addictions, motivation around career or life changes, and when someone feels stuck. The therapist will work together with each person to choose which methods fit best for their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and run through skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good choice when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing contact between sessions and can help with daily coping and brief coaching. These options make scheduling more flexible and can fit around work, school, or family routines.
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