Maria Holmes, LCSW

Maria Holmes is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience supporting people through hard times. She practices in Utah and speaks both English and Italian. Maria focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and struggles with self-esteem.

Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps people set small, useful goals they can try between meetings.

Maria uses tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses client-centered methods that center each person's perspective and pace. Mindfulness practices are offered when slowing down and building present-moment awareness can help.

Her work often includes helping people with life transitions and long-term stresses such as aging concerns, cancer, divorce, immigration challenges, and issues from family of origin. She also supports those coping with guilt, shame, codependency, isolation, and questions about life purpose.

Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing different ways to connect. Maria frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people find steps that fit daily life. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she focuses on steady, practical progress.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Maria often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. CBT focuses on practical steps and experiments you can try between sessions, which fit well with remote work.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means the therapist follows each person's lead and builds sessions around their concerns and pace. Mindfulness Therapy is offered to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase focus during daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then shape sessions together in a collaborative way.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different rhythms and needs. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing short updates or reminders. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy routines and long-term care plans.