About Maria
Maria "Mali" Jimenez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, addictive behaviors, eating or sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, and questions about intimacy and identity. Mali speaks English and Spanish and practices from Colorado.
Mali blends straightforward conversation with attentive listening. She encourages clients to notice thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.
How Maria works
Sessions aim to build practical skills and small, steady changes rather than quick fixes. Her work combines looking at how early relationships shaped current patterns with tools to change day-to-day thinking and behavior. That means talking about family of origin, attachment wounds, and how those influence communication, trust, and self-worth.
It also means practicing skills for mood and anxiety management. Mali draws on mindfulness exercises and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people respond differently to stress. She brings a psychodynamic perspective to understand long-standing patterns and uses motivational interviewing when people want help with change and ambivalence.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach where they guide the pace. Mali offers clear observations, occasional challenges, and support for trying new ways of relating and coping. Her goal is to help people move toward more stable mood, healthier relationships, and increased self-compassion.
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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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships influence current patterns. It looks at attachment wounds and family of origin dynamics to help people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and to build healthier connection habits.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, and coping with life changes by changing unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy helps people become aware of present-moment experience. Simple exercises train attention to thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations and can reduce reactivity to stress and improve self-regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mali will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their goals, values, and day-to-day needs. She adjusts pace and techniques as progress unfolds so clients feel involved in treatment decisions.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues and hold longer conversations, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter reflections, quick coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives, travel schedules, or different time zones.
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