Maria Gimenez-Cruz, LCSW

Maria Gimenez-Cruz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Florida with nine years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, ADHD, and sleep difficulties. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.

Maria focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions. She helps people identify strengths and practice concrete tools to manage strong emotions and everyday demands. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at solving immediate problems while building lasting coping skills.

Her work blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices. That means talking through how thoughts affect feelings, trying new behaviors, and practicing brief attention exercises to reduce reactivity. She also uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques to clarify goals and reshape difficult stories that keep people stuck.

Maria has supported people through divorce, immigration stress, abandonment and attachment concerns, compassion fatigue, and post-traumatic stress. She pays attention to how life changes and losses affect daily functioning and relationships. Her approach includes setting small, achievable goals and reviewing progress over time.

For parents she focuses on skills to manage parenting strain and anger, and to improve sleep and routines. For people coping with trauma or disaster-related stress she prioritizes safety and stabilizing techniques before moving into deeper processing. To begin, clients follow the site process to match and schedule an initial appointment.

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