About Maria
Maria Valtierra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on 12 years of clinical experience to guide practical steps forward. Maria aims to create a warm, respectful space where people can talk honestly and begin to make change.
Her sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable steps.
How Maria works
Maria uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to shift unhelpful thoughts and to build skills for everyday life. She also brings a client-centered way of working that keeps the person’s priorities central. Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the individual, whether that is coping with loss, handling parenting stress, or addressing addictions and trauma.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to find the will to change. Maria has supported people with mood disorders, ADHD, and eating concerns, and she has experience addressing trauma, abuse, and substance-related struggles. She also helps with practical life issues like career stress, money worries, immigration-related strain, and midlife transitions.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Maria works with each person to develop a straightforward plan and follows up on progress in ways that feel useful and manageable.
Maria lists 6 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Maria often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking that make problems worse; CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood challenges. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple practices for staying grounded in the moment and reducing overwhelm during stress and grief. Client-centered therapy is another part of her work, focusing conversation on the person’s priorities and choices rather than following a fixed plan.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Maria treats this as a collaborative process - she listens to goals, tries different techniques, and adjusts the plan based on what helps. That means clients and the therapist decide together which methods to keep using and which to change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a busy day, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging makes it easy to share thoughts between meetings. These options aim to make continuing care easier to fit into everyday life.
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A practical next step
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