Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Depression
How Maria works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Maria
Maria Caruso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of practice in New Jersey. She focuses on practical help for people facing relationship strains, grief, career shifts, depression, anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, and anger. Maria keeps things straightforward and collaborative so clients know what to expect from the start.
Her background includes work across medical, corporate, and community settings. That range means she has helped people manage caregiving stress, chronic illness, end-of-life situations, and life transitions tied to work or family roles.
Background and approach
She has also supported people dealing with adoption and attachment questions and intimacy or communication problems. Maria blends several therapy methods to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered conversations to listen and build goals, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and actions, and narrative approaches to reframe difficult life stories.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns and solution-focused steps for concrete progress. In sessions she often includes practical tools like journaling, brief contracts, and creative exercises. These options give people different ways to notice patterns and try new coping strategies between visits.
The aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes. Her style is warm, goal-oriented, and realistic. Maria works with people who want clear steps and honest conversation to face grief, anger, parenting stress, relationship problems, and other major life challenges.
What Maria works with
Everything Maria lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Maria's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Maria lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Maria's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy places the person's goals and experience at the center of sessions. Online, this means the therapist listens closely and adapts pacing, homework, and tools to what the person wants to achieve. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it works well online with worksheets, thought records, and behavior experiments that can be reviewed together during a call. Narrative therapy helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships, often using writing or storytelling tasks that fit naturally into text or chat formats.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods to try first, check in on progress, and shift strategies when something isn’t helping. That collaborative stance makes it easier to tailor online sessions to specific goals such as managing anger, coping with grief, or handling work stress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face-to-face for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, journaling feedback, and step-by-step coaching between longer sessions. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while fitting it into busy lives.
Questions people ask about Maria
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
Areas of focus include relationship and family problems, grief and loss, career transitions, depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, anger, parenting, and self-esteem.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, mixing client-centered listening with practical techniques like journaling, brief contracts, and creative exercises.
How much experience does the therapist have?
The clinician has 20 years of experience working in medical, corporate, and community settings with people facing a wide range of life challenges.
What are the therapist's credentials and location?
Maria holds the LPC credential and practices from New Jersey.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.