About Maria
Maria Roman is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people heal after difficult experiences. She emphasizes self-compassion, rebuilding self-worth, and practical ways to handle emotional pain. Maria speaks English and Spanish and brings five years of clinical practice to her work.
Her approach centers on supporting people through depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship challenges. She helps clients cope with life changes like divorce and separation, and with feelings such as guilt, shame, and loneliness.
How Maria works
Sessions often include talking through difficult memories and practicing strategies to feel steadier day to day. Maria offers a strength-based style that highlights each person's resilience. She helps people work on communication problems, body image worries, and rediscovering purpose.
When faith matters, she can integrate a Christian-informed perspective for those who request it. Practical skills are a regular part of sessions. Clients learn ways to manage mood shifts, set healthier boundaries, and build self-love.
Maria uses straightforward tools aimed at making small, lasting changes in daily life. People who choose her work with someone who pairs emotional support with goal-focused steps. The intent is to reduce isolation, ease painful feelings, and help clients move toward hope and clearer direction.
Maria aims to be a steady companion through that process.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online healing
Maria draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on emotional healing and practical change. One approach emphasizes building self-compassion and reducing shame by naming difficult feelings and practicing kinder self-talk; this helps with body image concerns, guilt, and low self-worth. Another approach centers on trauma recovery through gradual processing and developing coping skills to manage distressing memories and mood shifts; that method supports people dealing with past abuse and ongoing trauma symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses your needs, goals, and preferences and helps decide which techniques fit best. That way the work reflects both what you want to change and how you prefer to work in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits many lifestyles. Video calls let you see facial cues and practice new communication skills. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between appointments or for people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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