Maria Capehart
Supportive bilingual counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maria
Maria Capehart is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with five years of clinical experience. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and practices in Florida. Maria uses straightforward, practical work to help people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, mood struggles, relationship strain, parenting questions, and other life changes.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Background and approach
Maria also uses a client-centered stance that privileges each person’s own goals and pace. Sessions focus on concrete skills and small steps. She helps people build confidence, manage symptoms, and find routines that reduce overwhelm.
Conversations include coping tools for mood, strategies for communication, and planning around substance use or co-occurring concerns. Maria also addresses identity-related issues, immigration stressors, and grief, tailoring work to each person’s history and needs. She pays attention to patterns such as codependency, control issues, impulsivity, and isolation, and works to make these patterns more manageable.
Therapy aims to uncover internal and external resources and create a more balanced daily life. Maria supports clients as they try new approaches and practice skills between sessions. She welcomes people who prefer work in English or Spanish and provides care via online formats.
How Maria Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps clarify goals, and supports change at a comfortable pace. This approach is useful for people who need a respectful space to sort priorities and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Maria uses CBT techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and practice coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone is unsure about change; it helps build motivation and plan small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Maria will talk through options, adapt methods, and pick strategies that match a person’s goals and preferences. She sees therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s input shapes the plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. These formats let people fit sessions into busy schedules and continue progress from home. They also allow follow-up and brief check-ins between meetings, which can help maintain momentum.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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