Maria Dias, LCSW

Licensed in Texas · 18 years in practice

Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family difficulties.

License and registration

LCSW, Texas: 104456 · expires April 2027
NPI: 1366748592 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 18
Languages: English

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About Maria

Maria Dias is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family difficulties. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Maria aims to create a calm space where clients can name what matters and set clear goals.

She blends several approaches to fit each person, drawing from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, hypnotherapy, and mindfulness.

Background and approach

Sessions are shaped around what a person needs now rather than forcing a single theory. That makes the work feel more like teamwork than a lecture. Maria has a background in social work and psychology and completed a Master of Social Work from New York University.

Over nearly two decades she has kept learning new skills for anxiety, panic, and adolescent clinical work. This ongoing study informs how she adapts techniques for different concerns. In typical sessions she helps people identify unhelpful patterns, try small behavior changes, and practice emotion regulation skills.

She also supports work on grief, parenting stress, body image, codependency, and coping with life changes. Sessions often include simple exercises to use between meetings. Maria works with people in Texas and offers therapy in English.

She aims to make therapy clear and manageable, so people feel more able to handle daily challenges and reach goals at their own pace.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Maria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Depression
LGBT
Grief
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Phobias
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Social anxiety and phobia
Somatization
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Maria names

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Online support

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting back what matters most. It helps people who need support naming their concerns and deciding what to try next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. It is useful for stress, panic, depression, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which can be helpful for intense emotions, anger, and relationship stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit a person’s goals and comfort. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for short updates, brief problem-solving, and keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue work from different locations.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Maria commonly address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, grief, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

What is the therapy style like?

Sessions are collaborative and practical, using a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior skills, hypnotherapy, and mindfulness to match each person’s needs.

How long has this clinician worked in mental health?

She has 18 years of clinical experience, with ongoing post-graduate training in areas such as anxiety, panic, adolescent clinical work, and hypnotherapy.

What credentials and location are listed?

Maria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - practicing in Texas.

Which languages are supported and can international clients join?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available online?

Therapy with this clinician can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for the client.

How does payment or cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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