Maria Concepcion, LMHC

Florida · 13 years in practice

Maria Concepcion is a licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of experience.

License and registration

LMHC, Florida: MH13138 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1801280136 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 13
Languages: English, Spanish

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About Maria

Maria Concepcion is a licensed mental health counselor with 13 years of experience. She aims to make sessions feel like a calm conversation, not an interrogation. Her style is direct but warm, and she asks for active participation between meetings.

Sessions combine talk with practical steps clients can use right away. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, and substance-related family issues.

Background and approach

She also supports people coping with career stress, ADHD, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and caregiving strain. Work often includes identifying thought patterns that drive behavior and testing new responses in daily life. Maria commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking.

She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to address relational patterns and closeness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered techniques shape a collaborative, values-focused plan when helpful. Her approach asks clients to try short exercises between sessions and to use messaging for brief check-ins.

This mix of live sessions and ongoing tasks is meant to speed practical progress. She also offers spiritual reflection when clients want to include faith in their work. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and take place with Maria while she practices in Florida.

She invites people seeking straightforward, active counseling to begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule their first appointment.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Maria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Intimacy-related issues
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
LGBT
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Attachment issues
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Dependent personality
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sexual dysfunction
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Maria names

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Online support

How her approaches translate to online care

Maria often draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to explore patterns of feeling and connection, helping people recognize emotions that shape their relationships and build safer ways of relating. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify values and teach simple exercises for handling painful thoughts and feelings so people can act toward what matters to them. Attachment-Based Therapy helps identify early patterns that affect current bonds and supports small changes to improve closeness and trust.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Maria discusses goals and preferences with each client and adjusts techniques as work progresses. She uses short in-session exercises and homework to test what helps in everyday life rather than relying on a single method.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is needed. Live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflection, or step-by-step coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does she address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, addiction-related family stress, and related concerns like ADHD, bipolar symptoms, career strain, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapy style like?

Sessions are conversational and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools and active between-session work such as brief assignments and messaging check-ins.

How much experience does she have?

Maria has 13 years of experience as a mental health counselor working with a broad range of emotional and relationship difficulties.

What credential and location information is relevant?

She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - practicing in Florida.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect and continue work between meetings.

How are costs handled?

Session cost varies by location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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