About Maria
Maria Mir meets people who feel overwhelmed by work and life demands. She writes simply and listens with patience. Maria is a California licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - with 18 years of experience.
She helps people untangle stress, anxiety, relationship strains, parenting pressures, grief, and burnout. Her style is direct and practical. Sessions focus on real problems you face each day.
She helps clients name what is most urgent, sort through difficult emotions, and try small changes that can make routine life easier.
How Maria works
Conversations can include coping strategies, communication skills, and exploring past wounds that still affect daily choices. Maria draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s pace and priorities.
Cognitive behavioral methods help people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-focused and Gottman ideas are available when relationship patterns are part of the concern. She has experience working with trauma, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and life transitions.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, aging concerns, chronic illness and pain, attachment issues, and communication problems. Maria also supports people facing caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and the emotional fallout of cancer. Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To start, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Maria lists 8 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Maria uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s lead and prioritize what matters most to them. This approach focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around a person’s goals, which can help with stress, parenting strain, and emotional overwhelm.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and changing daily habits that get in the way of feeling better. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns and closeness are central concerns, helping people name emotions and shift interaction cycles.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maria will work collaboratively to decide which methods to try based on a person’s goals and preferences. She often blends techniques so sessions meet practical needs, whether the focus is coping skills, communication, or working through past hurts.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone can be a lower-bandwidth option for full sessions. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support, or a quick emotional boost between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and stay consistent with treatment plans.
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