About Maria
Maria Wells is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wyoming. She brings four years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. Maria believes people know their own story and come with strengths to draw on.
She creates a calm space where clients can speak honestly about what is hard. Starting therapy can feel intimidating, and she acknowledges the courage it takes to begin.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes gentle listening with practical tools. She uses client-centered conversations to follow each person’s pace and priorities. When useful, she incorporates cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Maria also draws on somatic methods to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. For survivors of traumatic events she may use EMDR techniques alongside talk-based work to address painful memories. Sessions are focused on immediate concerns and small, achievable steps.
Maria works with people on addiction-related struggles including substance use and process addictions, and on issues tied to adoption, blended family stress, and codependency. She aims to help clients build clearer coping skills and steadier self-confidence.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing work, and movement prompts to help people feel and name physical sensations related to anxiety or past harm. These techniques support self-regulation and grounding during sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. In online sessions this translates to practical exercises, thought records, and homework that people can use between meetings to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits.
EMDR is a memory-focused approach used with trauma. In a virtual setting elements of EMDR can be integrated into sessions to help process distressing memories alongside somatic and talk-based work when appropriate.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist works collaboratively to find what fits each person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans can change as progress is made and as new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. This variety lets people pick the format that matches their schedule and energy level, whether they prefer real-time conversation or brief check-ins between sessions. It makes ongoing support easier to keep up with while life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English