Maria Sandoval
Compassionate support for family and relationships
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maria
Maria Sandoval is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with 21 years of practice. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, along with issues like self-esteem, depression, anxiety, grief, and coping with life changes. She aims to make it easier for a worried parent to take the first step toward help.
Maria works to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. In sessions she listens carefully and helps clients name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and down-to-earth, with attention to what can change now. She helps people sort through relationship problems and family tensions, and she supports work on motivation, confidence, and emotional regulation. Maria draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions toward useful skills and clearer decision-making.
She encourages small, manageable steps so progress feels achievable. When grief, trauma, or high stress are part of the picture, she balances empathy with concrete tools to cope. Over two decades of work have given her experience in many care settings, and she brings that perspective to each meeting.
Sessions can take different forms depending on what a client needs and prefers. Maria aims to partner with each person to build a clearer path forward. She offers services in English and practices under Utah LCSW 364465-3501.
The first stages focus on understanding the problem and agreeing on practical next steps.
Therapeutic techniques and online options
Maria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and clear goals. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping skills for stress, anxiety, and mood challenges; this includes strategies to manage intense feelings and handle everyday stressors. Another approach emphasizes improving communication and problem-solving in relationships and families, helping people set boundaries, express needs, and work through conflicts in concrete steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Maria will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and collaborate to choose techniques that fit your goals and preferences. That shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to what matters most in your life and family context.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work when video is not convenient, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
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