Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Maria works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Maria
Dr. Maria Peters welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and anger concerns.
Her first aim is to help a person feel heard and understood so they can start to make small, steady changes. She uses straightforward conversations to uncover what matters most to each client. Sessions focus on practical steps - noticing patterns, trying new behaviors, and building skills that reduce daily distress.
Background and approach
Dr. Peters draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and on client-centered listening to keep the work grounded in a person's own goals. For people with trauma or difficult memories, she also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, an approach that helps process upsetting experiences.
Attachment-based ideas guide how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional safety in close bonds. These methods combine to address anger, intimacy issues, and struggles that come from past losses or abandonment. With two decades as a licensed professional counselor in Texas, Dr.
Peters emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. She respects each person's pace and adapts tools to fit real life. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on practical change.
Dr. Peters offers sessions in English and works with international clients when needed. People can connect by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match their schedule and daily needs.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Maria lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Dr. Peters commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas into online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced through structured exercises and homework between visits. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of relating to others, useful when addressing anger or intimacy concerns.She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people processing trauma, adapting the method to remote sessions when appropriate. Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Dr. Peters offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and therapeutic exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while keeping the focus on skill building and steady improvement.
Questions people ask about Maria
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and many related issues listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is conversational and practical, combining client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused methods when needed.
What is her professional background?
She has 20 years of counseling experience and brings long-term clinical work to sessions.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and provides services from that state.
Can sessions be conducted in other countries or languages?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
Clients may meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.