Maria Rivera
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Not taking new clients here Counselor of color
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About Maria
I am licensed in North Carolina with 15 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, coping with addictions, relationship issues, & trauma and abuse. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I am proud of you for getting started!
What Maria helps with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How Maria works
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
What clients say
- “Exhibits strong expertise, skills and relatability. Genuinely wants to help you progress in life for the better.”
- “Great therapist overall. Easy to talk to and listen well to us. Great expert advice and awesome in every way.”
- “Very thoughtful and helpful so far! She listens and gives insight in a balanced way.”
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- “Very pleasant therapist to be with”
- “We have had more connection and ways of opening up our relationship since working with Maria. She's responsive and has great ideas for us going forward in between sessions.”
- “Maria has been great to work with you. Her ability to help you see the many different prospective and help you focus on your self being has outstanding.”
- “She has always been available and understanding. Providing tools and techniques from actual data, research, and faith based background!”
- “She's amazing”
- “Maria Rivera is an experienced professional. Her listening skill are very impressive. Her feedback is equally impressive ... and very useful.”
- “Maria is awesome. I do, however, not like the payscale of being charged $90 a week regardless of seeing a therapist.”
- “She is an amazing therapist who has helped me so much, and I would choose her over and over again”
- “Great session ver personable with the knowledge to back it up!”
- “Maria gives me the safe space and tools I need to grow and become the person I want to be through learning and healing. I have greatly benefited from my sessions.”
- “Maria is wonderful, kind, understanding, and a great listener. She helps me think through my challenges and validates the way I feel without telling me right and wrong.”
- “The biggest take away I've gotten from Maria is that my emotions are transient, and they change with time. I've learned to ride out the worst days and that makes the good days more enjoyable.”
These reviews represent a few of the most recent positive reviews from the therapist's clients on BetterHelp. Some people's experience may be different.