Maria Luna, LMSW, LCSW
Somatic-informed social worker helping with stress and trauma
About Maria
Maria Luna is a licensed social worker who offers practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and trauma. She holds a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and practices in Wisconsin. Maria uses clear, down-to-earth language so conversations feel straightforward and useful.
She focuses on everyday problems that pile up - work stress, low self-esteem, relationship tension, and changes like divorce or caregiving.
Background and approach
Maria also helps people coping with chronic illness, body image concerns, and the emotional effects of past abuse. She works with LGBTQ clients and with those managing burnout or compassion fatigue. Maria blends body-aware methods with practical talk therapy.
She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive-behavioral tools to build new habits and lessen avoidance. Sessions aim to be collaborative and solution-focused.
Maria listens for patterns, helps name painful feelings, and offers simple exercises clients can try between sessions. She encourages small steps that fit each person’s life and goals. With five years of clinical experience across Wisconsin and Michigan licensure, Maria brings steady support without jargon.
People who want straightforward guidance for mood, trauma, or life transitions often find this approach helpful.
Approaches that translate to online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and uses gentle awareness of physical sensations to reduce stress and ground people. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values despite difficult feelings. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and creating a space where a person can feel understood and start to make changes.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to test what helps most, adjusting techniques to match their goals and comfort. This collaborative process helps clarify practical steps and what to try between sessions.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, allow for continuity when travel or schedules change, and offer flexible ways to use skills between sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic awareness, ACT exercises, and client-centered listening to these online formats so people can keep working toward their goals from wherever they are.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Michigan
- Languages
- English