Maria Froilan, LMFT

Maria Froilan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on down-to-earth, practical steps that help people manage stress and anxiety. Maria speaks English and Tagalog and aims to make the first step easier for anyone who is considering therapy.

She helps people who are coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, parenting strains, career stress, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns including bipolar disorder and ADHD. Communication problems and social anxiety are among her additional focus areas.

In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their own life. Maria listens for strengths and workable patterns, then suggests straightforward tools clients can try between meetings. She uses methods from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused approaches to shape concrete strategies and skills.

Her style is collaborative and practical. Conversations aim to be clear and grounded, with small, doable goals rather than complex theory. People who want direct guidance and real-world techniques often find this approach helpful.

Maria has worked across a variety of settings over her career and brings that experience into the room. She encourages questions about process and pace, and adjusts work to match what each person needs. Taking the first step is acknowledged and respected throughout therapy.

Online approaches for practical change

Maria uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thinking patterns and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on small experiments and skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily routines. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used to address the effects of past harm by teaching grounding tools, emotion regulation, and ways to make distressing memories less disruptive.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs, and together they decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is or isn’t helping.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more usable. Video lets people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone calls can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging options are useful for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit sessions into a working week or family schedule.