Maria Serrano, LPC

Maria Serrano is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with over 15 years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. Maria focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day while also paying attention to deeper patterns that keep problems repeating.

Her approach is rooted in Existential-Humanistic ideas, with a clear focus on personal meaning and responsibility. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Internal Family Systems work and Solution-Focused techniques are woven in when they fit the situation.

Maria pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, and difficulties with commitment or dependence. She also supports people dealing with aging and geriatric issues, hoarding, domestic violence effects, divorce and separation, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame. Her background includes clinical practice in both Mexico and Texas.

In sessions she helps clients identify patterns, practice new ways of relating, and set small achievable goals. She encourages people to rediscover strengths and rebuild connections with themselves and others. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person needs.

Maria welcomes those who want practical tools and deeper reflection. She frames therapy as a process of exploration and real-life change, and she aims to keep conversations straightforward and focused on what matters most to each client.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Maria often blends Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship, which helps people feel heard and supported as they talk through personal concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments to change feelings and routines.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying ideas together and adjusting what isn’t working rather than committing to a single path at the start.

Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as arranging shorter check-ins around a work break or avoiding travel time to an office. It can also allow people to keep continuity of care if they move within the same state. Licensed professionals can adapt Client-Centered listening and CBT exercises to a remote setting so practical tools and deeper reflection remain central to the work.