- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Maria
Maria Caruso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and stress. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at easing daily life for busy parents.
She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals, concrete tools, and simple practices to use between meetings. Maria often uses journaling, structured exercises, and conversational work to surface patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Parents find her helpful when managing conflict, communication problems, and the emotional strain that comes with caregiving or major life changes. She also supports people coping with depression, anxiety, addiction, intimacy issues, and loss. Maria has experience working with those affected by chronic illness, adoption and foster care concerns, and end-of-life matters.
Clients can expect a collaborative relationship where therapist and client agree on goals and next steps. Maria favors brief, goal-oriented interventions when helpful, and she shifts pace based on each person's situation. Her background includes working in medical and corporate settings, which informs her practical, down-to-earth approach.
She provides services from her New Jersey practice and offers sessions in English. Maria emphasizes creating workable plans that fit into a parent's schedule and daily routine.
What Maria works with
Everything Maria lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Maria helps people with.
- 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.
Approaches that fit parenting and life transitions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and building understanding. It helps people feel heard and supports them in finding their own solutions to parenting and relationship stresses.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce anxiety, low mood, and patterns that make parenting harder.
Narrative Therapy invites clients to tell and reshape the stories they live by. It can help reframe identities around caregiving, loss, or major life changes so people see new options for moving forward.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents. Video calls let people work face-to-face when discussion and visual cues are important. Phone sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support and coaching between sessions to fit into a workday or while juggling childcare.
Questions people ask about Maria
What concerns does she help with?
Maria works with relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, grief, career stress, depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, intimacy problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
What is her general approach in therapy?
She uses an integrative, client-centered style that combines practical tools and conversational work. Sessions often include journaling and structured exercises to create steps clients can use between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working in individual, group, medical, and corporate settings.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled?
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?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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