Maria CastroLMHC

Maria Castro is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Washington. She has 12 years of clinical experience and offers therapy in English and Spanish. Maria focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse.

She uses a person-centered, strengths-based style that treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions aim to be respectful, inclusive, and practical. Maria listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and steps forward.

Her work brings together cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. That means clients can expect help spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new behaviors, and creating short-term plans that lead to small wins. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding their own reasons to change.

Maria has experience supporting people with parenting and relationship concerns, postpartum depression, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and panic symptoms. She also addresses issues like grief, guilt, shame, isolation, and multicultural stressors. Sessions are tailored to the individual’s situation and goals.

If someone is navigating life changes after childbirth, a move, or a loss, Maria aims to work collaboratively to restore balance. She encourages practical changes alongside emotional processing, and checks in regularly to adapt the plan as progress is made.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to you. It helps when someone needs acceptance, clarity, and a plan that matches their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches ways to try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful. She checks in about goals and adjusts methods so they match individual needs and preferences.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that helps. It also lets people use therapy from a familiar setting and move forward with concrete tools and homework between meetings.