About Maria
Maria Del Carmen Reyna is a licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience who helps adults manage stress, anxiety, and the effects of trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in California. Her work emphasizes steady, practical steps so people can feel more grounded and make clearer decisions.
Her approach centers on relationships and how past experiences shape today's reactions. Sessions focus on understanding old patterns that once helped someone survive but now get in the way.
How Maria works
Conversations move from naming these patterns to trying different ways of responding in day-to-day life. Therapy with her is practical and compassionate. She teaches tools to calm the nervous system and lower anxiety.
The goal is to increase confidence and reduce overwhelm so decisions feel easier to make. She uses methods drawn from attachment work, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and mindfulness. These methods guide how she and the person in therapy choose what to practice between sessions.
Progress is paced to match the person's needs and comfort level. Maria helps people address relationship struggles, family problems, issues with trust or abandonment, feelings of emptiness, and self-esteem concerns. She also focuses on communication problems, codependency, caregiver stress, and healing from abuse.
Her style is steady, attentive, and focused on practical change.
Maria lists 12 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Online approaches for trauma, anxiety, and relationships
Maria draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships affect current trust, closeness, and boundaries. This approach helps people see repeating patterns and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT provides straightforward strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and practice small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest one or a combination of methods to try. Plans are adjusted as work moves forward, so the approach remains a good fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people connect face-to-face, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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