Dr. Maria Clapp
Supportive counselor for families and adults
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Maria
Dr. Maria Clapp is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience. She practices in Florida and welcomes people who want help managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, or parenting challenges.
Dr. Clapp uses clear, practical steps so people can begin to feel more capable and in control. Her training includes a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, a master’s in Mental Health Counseling, and a bachelor’s in Psychology.
Background and approach
She holds the Florida LMHC credential - FL LMHC MH6096 - and communicates in English and Spanish. She has worked across settings with adults and older adults, and with youth aged 13 and up. In sessions she focuses on the relationship first.
She listens, asks practical questions, and helps set short-term goals. She draws on solution-focused tools and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change specific thoughts and habits that cause distress. When substance use or court-related issues are involved she can address those concerns directly and use motivational interviewing to support change.
Trauma-focused skills are used when past harm continues to affect daily life. She also offers parenting education and programs for anger management, and she has experience supporting people caring for someone with chronic illness or disability. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented, aimed at helping clients make steady progress.
Dr. Clapp encourages people to take one step at a time. She helps clients set practical goals, track small gains, and adjust plans as needed to fit real life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Dr. Clapp commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy in her online practice. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on specific, practical steps and short-term goals to move a person toward what they want to be different.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will listen to your concerns and work with you to choose tools that fit your goals and lifestyle. If past trauma or substance use is part of the picture, she can bring in trauma-focused skills or motivational interviewing as needed and explain why those methods might help.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you meet face-to-face from home, phone sessions offer an audio-only option, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter, flexible contact between sessions. These formats support consistent work on goals and make it simpler to keep therapy on track when schedules or caregiving needs change.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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