Maria Farraye-Biggs

Maria Farraye-Biggs is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting struggles, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and draws on her own experience as someone who has used therapy and navigated health and family challenges. That background helps her relate to clients and offer steady, practical support.

She aims to build a trusting relationship first, knowing that rapport takes time. Sessions focus on listening, understanding what matters to each person, and setting goals together. Maria uses straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and practical steps so clients can try things between meetings and notice what changes.

Her approach blends several methods to match the issue at hand. She may use client-centered work to follow a person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns, and solution-focused strategies to identify immediate steps forward. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas when past patterns help explain present difficulties.

Maria has worked across many settings, including managing a private practice, and she has supported people facing depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, intimacy issues, and workplace or multicultural concerns. She explicitly lists divorce and separation among areas of focus and can help people process that kind of life change.

Her style is described by clients as caring, reflective, and direct. She emphasizes collaboration - helping each person discover strengths and make practical changes. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site's process to match and schedule an initial appointment.

How her approaches guide online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead, helping the therapist understand what each person cares about and where to begin. This approach is useful for people who want their priorities to shape the work.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete strategies to change patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills to try between sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong emotions and the patterns that keep them stuck. It can be useful for processing grief, intimacy issues, and relationship-related concerns.

Finding the right method is part of the process. The therapist will work with each client to choose or combine approaches based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration means plans can shift as progress is made or new issues arise.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since the original biography does not specify formats. Ask about the available session options when scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so appointments can happen around work or family commitments.