About Maria
Maria Lozano is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style that aims to make conversations feel safe and clear. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Maria draws on 14 years of experience in mental health to guide people through relationship and family concerns, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and somatic symptoms.
Background and approach
She blends talking, body-focused awareness, and concrete skills so people can find relief in day-to-day life. Spanish and English are both available for sessions. Her approach combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and somatic work.
That means she listens first, then suggests small experiments and body-based practices people can try between sessions. Mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she helps people notice patterns and respond differently. Maria pays attention to cultural context and life events like pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum challenges when they come up.
She also works with clients facing domestic violence, family-of-origin issues, loneliness, and mood-related concerns. The focus is on restoring a sense of agency and steadiness. In sessions people can expect straightforward language, gentle curiosity, and practical steps to try at home.
Maria aims to help people reconnect with their own strengths and build coping skills that fit real life. If someone wants therapy in Spanish or English, she offers both options and works to make the process simple and accessible.
Body and Talk Approaches for Online Care
Somatic Therapy focuses on noticing how emotions show up in the body and using gentle movement, breath work, or attention to physical sensations to reduce tension and improve regulation. It can be helpful for trauma responses, anxiety, and somatic symptoms that show up as pain or tightness.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and understood. The therapist listens closely and follows each person's pace, creating space for people to explore feelings and make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions and offers practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Over time those methods can be adjusted based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility across video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. This variety makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days, continue care during life changes, and use shorter check-ins or written reflections when that suits the client. Many people find the range of formats helpful for staying consistent and building skills in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish