Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Maria works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Maria
Maria Dally is a licensed master social worker who focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and life stressors. She uses straightforward, practical strategies to help clients handle anxiety, anger, grief, and major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and works with people in Michigan.
Maria draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns. Sessions often include simple exercises to notice thoughts, test assumptions, and try different behaviors between meetings.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to support people sorting through relationship wounds and improving communication. Her background includes four years in community mental health settings. That experience includes virtual and in-person work with parents, young people, and adults facing trauma, depression, and stress.
She explains tools in plain language and focuses on what a person can try today to feel a bit steadier. Many clients come with parenting strain, sleep or eating disruptions, impulsivity, or trouble after loss or trauma. Maria helps people build resilience, practice self-compassion, and create routines that support emotional regulation.
She also pays attention to cultural and immigration-related concerns when they come up. Outside of work she enjoys crocheting, puzzles, scenic walks, and time with loved ones. She mentions a soft spot for cats, plants, and turtles.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aiming to make therapy a workable part of a busy life.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Maria lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-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 therapy approaches adapt to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-driven action. Online work with ACT often includes brief exercises to practice acceptance and to choose small, meaningful steps between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and uses simple experiments and skill practice to change patterns. In virtual sessions CBT can include worksheets, in-session role plays, and homework tracked between meetings. Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns from early relationships and improve current connections through clearer communication and emotional awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. That may mean blending ACT, CBT, and attachment ideas so tools match the problem at hand and the client’s comfort with different exercises.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make ongoing care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen sharing of handouts. Phone calls can fit a short check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support quick skill practice, brief coaching, or check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue work even when in-person meetings aren’t possible.
Questions people ask about Maria
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, grief, and parenting stress, among other concerns listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses practical, down-to-earth techniques from CBT and ACT and brings a warm, collaborative manner to sessions.
What experience does she have?
She has four years of experience working in community mental health settings with virtual and in-person clients.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed master social worker, MI LMSW, practicing in Michigan.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing work.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy and complete a short matching questionnaire.