Maria Capehart, LMHC

Maria Capehart is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with five years of experience. She works with adults and couples and speaks both English and Spanish. Maria focuses on practical steps clients can use to manage everyday challenges and feel more in control. Her background includes treating mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and addictions alongside co-occurring mental health concerns. She has experience supporting people from the LGBT community, minority groups, and immigrant backgrounds. Maria also helps with relationship and parenting concerns, emotion regulation, trauma, and life transitions. Maria uses an integrative approach that pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Client-Centered Therapy. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and offers guidance to help build confidence and new coping skills. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful beliefs and practicing concrete tools to manage symptoms and stressors. She also focuses on practical areas like communication problems, codependency, impulse control, addiction to drugs or alcohol, and eating-related issues. Maria helps people find internal and external supports to create a more balanced routine and healthier patterns of behavior. People who choose her typically want clear tools, straightforward conversation, and support navigating major changes. To begin, clients use the site process to match and schedule a session based on availability. Maria welcomes the chance to work collaboratively toward realistic goals.

How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person’s experience and building a trusting, nonjudgmental conversation. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to set the pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and relies on clear, actionable techniques to change patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress and addictive behaviors. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and strengthens commitment to goals, which can be especially helpful for substance use and ambivalence about change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and make it possible to keep therapy going during life transitions. Licensed professionals can adapt interactive exercises, homework, and motivational conversations to an online format to keep sessions goal-focused and practical.