Maria Concepcion
Calm, direct support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maria
Maria Concepcion is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 13 years of experience. She aims to create a relaxed, friendly atmosphere so people feel comfortable talking about hard things. She brings a direct but compassionate style and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and struggles tied to addiction and family problems. She also helps people who want better coping skills for difficult life changes and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Sessions may include discussion of family of origin and blended family issues when relevant. Her work leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and actions and gives specific tools to change them. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to address how values and early connections shape choices.
Clients can expect a mix of conversation, skill practice, and homework to apply learning day to day. Maria describes the process as collaborative. She offers clear guidance and asks for active participation through messaging and short practice assignments.
This approach is meant to help people notice thinking patterns and adjust behaviors that get in the way of goals. Sessions may include practical techniques, spiritual reflection when invited, and ongoing check-ins through messaging between live meetings. She provides services in both English and Spanish and practices in Florida.
Therapeutic approaches and online options for family concerns
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when hard feelings come up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes by focusing on actions that align with personal priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It provides concrete exercises to change thinking patterns and daily routines that maintain anxiety, low mood, or relationship tension.
Attachment-Based ideas focus on how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in current family and parenting roles. This can help people understand and shift how they relate to partners and family members.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to follow up between meetings. Many people find the mix of live sessions plus messaging helpful for keeping progress going day to day.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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