About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are.
Her approach is practical and centered on a person’s strengths. She encourages steady steps toward clearer thinking and better coping. Her work draws on body-focused somatic methods to notice how feelings show up physically.
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns formed in relationships.
Background and approach
Client-centered principles guide sessions so people set the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when helpful to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. EMDR is an option for processing traumatic memories when that is a good fit.
Sessions can include talk, movement awareness, or focused exercises tailored to each person. The aim is to reduce overwhelming responses and restore more control over reactions. Dr.
Peters has supported people with grief, addiction, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image concerns, and parenting strain. She also addresses intimacy issues, ADHD symptoms, bipolar challenges, and codependency. Her work includes problems tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, and dissociation.
She offers services from Texas and communicates in English. Therapy is delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging using a subscription model. To begin, people complete a brief questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body. In online sessions this can mean noticing breath, posture, tension, or grounding sensations and using gentle movement or awareness to reduce overwhelm. It is often helpful for trauma, chronic stress, and physical responses tied to emotion.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationship patterns formed early affect current connections. This approach helps people identify repeating patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating. It is useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, abandonment concerns, and attachment wounds.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Choices are guided by symptoms, personal preference, and how a person responds in session.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper exercises and somatic awareness. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide more accessible or lower-intensity options for check-ins and coping tools. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working with a licensed professional to address stress, trauma, relationships, and other concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English