Maria Ward, LMFT
California · 13 years in practice
Maria Ward is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 13 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 98143 · expires May 2026
- NPI
- 1184932006 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Maria
Maria Ward is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addiction, and relationship or parenting strains. She offers help in both English and Spanish and accepts international clients.
Maria views each person as the expert on their own life. She listens, reflects, and helps people name what matters to them. Sessions focus on practical steps, skill building, and understanding the patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
She aims to give useful tools you can try between meetings. Her work draws on Jungian ideas along with evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. That blend supports both emotional insight and concrete behavior changes.
Attachment-based and client-centered techniques guide how she builds trust and tailors care to each person. Typical concerns she addresses include anger, grief, intimacy-related struggles, body image, caregiver stress, parenting challenges, career stress, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD, and substance use. She also helps people facing adoption and foster care issues, abandonment wounds, blended family stress, and divorce-related transitions.
Maria offers short-term skill work and longer conversations about meaning and life changes. She encourages people to set clear goals and to check progress as therapy continues. If someone prefers Spanish, she can conduct sessions in that language.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Maria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Maria names
- Jungian Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How different approaches work online
Jungian-informed work helps people notice patterns, personal symbols, and life stories that shape feelings and choices. Online sessions can use conversation and simple reflective exercises to bring awareness to recurring themes and inner conflicts.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with what matters most. In remote sessions ACT techniques can include mindfulness exercises, values clarification, and behavioral experiments to try between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust and communication. Through gentle exploration in session, a therapist helps clients practice new ways of relating and responding to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That process can include trying different techniques and checking what feels helpful over time.
Online care offers flexibility: video calls for fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, short live-chat check-ins, or text-based messaging for brief updates and reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, maintain continuity while traveling, or keep regular contact between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can Maria help with?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, addictions, relationship and parenting struggles, grief, intimacy issues, eating and body image problems, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style mixes Jungian-informed exploration with client-centered listening and practical approaches like CBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build skills and insight.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She holds 13 years of professional experience working with adults on trauma, mood concerns, relationship and parenting challenges, and addiction-related issues.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist and practices from California.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate bilingual speakers and Spanish-preferring clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing work for sessions?
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?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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