Maria Grimshaw-Clark
Compassionate, experienced therapist focused on relationships
LCSW Virginia
- Experience
- 34 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Maria
Maria Grimshaw-Clark is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship problems. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical ways to reduce distress and improve daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and geared toward real change rather than jargon or long lectures. Maria draws on several evidence-informed approaches to guide her work.
She uses the Gottman Method when couples want to rebuild communication and repair trust. She also applies client-centered techniques to keep the work focused on each person's goals and experience.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used to shift unhelpful thoughts and build emotion regulation skills. Her background includes many years working with individuals, couples, and family concerns in Virginia.
That experience informs a practical style that balances insight with hands-on strategies. Maria often helps clients replace old coping patterns with new, more effective habits.
Clients can expect calm, direct conversations that target patterns causing pain and get to workable steps. She pays attention to attachment issues, blended family stress, caregiver strain, codependency, infidelity, and communication problems.
Maria also supports people facing anger, guilt, shame, and midlife transitions. For people who prefer to start online, sessions can be scheduled by choosing the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.
Appointments are arranged to match each person's needs and calendar rhythms.
Practical approaches for online relationship and stress work
Maria uses the Gottman Method to guide couples toward clearer communication and practical strategies for repairing trust and reducing conflict. That approach focuses on specific behaviors and skills couples can practice between sessions to improve day-to-day interactions.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in each person's experience and goals, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT offers structured tools that work well for stress, depression, and many relationship patterns.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. Maria treats the choice of method as collaborative, adjusting techniques based on a client's needs, goals, and what feels most useful in practice. She checks in regularly and adapts plans as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and relationship work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Experience
34+ years
Licensed in
Arizona, Virginia
Languages
English