About Maria
Maria Del Carmen Reyna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She helps adults who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in repeating patterns. Her work focuses on reducing stress and building safer, steadier ways of coping.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and blend talk with attention to the body. With six years of clinical experience, Maria uses a mix of somatic techniques and evidence-based therapies.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past hurts affect current relationships and sense of self. Together clients look at attachment patterns, abandonment wounds, and moments that trigger dissociation or shame. Maria keeps therapy practical and grounded.
She teaches tools to calm the nervous system and manage intense emotions. These tools include breathing, movement awareness, and skills drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches. Her work also addresses family of origin issues, blended family stress, caregiver burden, codependency, and communication problems.
She helps people sort through guilt, forgiveness, and fatherhood concerns with steady support and clear strategies. People meet her for help with trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and chronic stress. Maria aims to help clients feel more connected to their bodies, more confident in decisions, and less overwhelmed by daily life.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Maria uses somatic methods to notice how stress shows up in the body and to teach simple practices that reduce tension. Somatic work helps people feel more grounded and less reactive when memories or relationships feel overwhelming.She also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches. Attachment-based work looks at patterns developed in early relationships and how they affect trust and boundaries now. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can discover their own solutions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maria collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, comfort level, and how they respond. Sessions can mix body awareness, practical skills from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical approaches, and supportive listening to match what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work and family obligations. Many people find remote sessions useful for practicing breath work and grounding techniques from home while still getting professional guidance.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish