Maria Farraye-Biggs
Compassionate, experienced family-focused clinician
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maria
Maria Farraye-Biggs is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings thirty years of experience to people seeking help with stress, anxiety, parenting, and related concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and works with clients in New Jersey. Her style is warm and down-to-earth; she aims to build trust first and then help people work toward clear goals.
Maria draws on her own life experience to connect with clients and to normalize hard feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical techniques with time to reflect on personal history. She might use tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. At the same time she can listen for deeper themes that come from family background or past experiences and bring those into the conversation.
Sessions often emphasize problem-solving and small, doable changes. Solution-focused methods are used to set short-term targets and track progress. Emotionally-focused work helps when relationship or intimacy issues are at the center of concern.
Clients with mood concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, or seasonal mood shifts can expect a mix of skill-building and careful listening. Maria also supports people facing grief, workplace stress, discrimination, and life transitions. She pays attention to cultural context, immigration-related stresses, and parenting questions including ADHD in children.
Maria aims to make therapy collaborative. She listens first, then offers suggestions and challenges when helpful. The goal is practical change alongside a clearer sense of self and stronger coping skills.
How Maria's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. The therapist offers empathy and respect while helping the client find their own solutions, which is useful for stress, parenting concerns, and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express core emotions and improve closeness in important relationships. It is often helpful for intimacy-related issues and attachment concerns.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose approaches that match goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, and family life and to continue care during busy or changing schedules. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver skill practice, emotional support, and goal tracking in ways that suit each client.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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