About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters greets people who are feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to turn. She focuses on helping individuals who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, or challenges with anger and addiction.
Dr. Peters works to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels most urgent to them. She uses straightforward, practical methods that draw on attachment ideas, cognitive strategies, and client-centered listening.
How Maria works
That means sessions often look like mapping patterns, practicing new ways of responding, and building on a person's existing strengths. EMDR may be used when past events keep coming up in ways that interfere with daily life. With 20 years as a licensed professional counselor - LPC - she brings long experience without jargon.
Her approach is collaborative; she helps people set clear goals and tracks small changes over time. She explains options and helps pick techniques that fit personal preferences and daily routines. People often come for help with parenting stress, grief, body image and eating concerns, ADHD, chronic illness, or career pressure.
Dr. Peters also supports those working through abandonment, attachment difficulties, foster care and adoption issues, and codependency. She pays attention to how life events affect mood, sleep, appetite, and relationships.
Sessions are offered from Texas and are available in English. For many people the work starts with one practical step and then builds into clearer choices and safer emotional ground.
Maria lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches for online healing and growth
Dr. Peters combines attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change how they respond to stress and relationship patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship experiences shape present reactions and helps people try new ways of connecting and trusting. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and practicing different behaviors to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep and daily functioning.EMDR is also offered when past events keep replaying and causing emotional or physical distress. That approach helps process difficult memories so they feel less intense and disruptive. Together these methods are used flexibly; the therapist will talk with each person about which approach seems likely to help and will adjust methods as goals evolve in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work around bandwidth limits, live chat supports shorter exchanges during a busy day, and text-based messaging makes it possible to reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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