Maria Caruso, LPC

Maria Caruso is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, children, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked in both community and corporate settings, helping people navigate transitions, manage stress and anxiety, and cope with complex situations such as illness and loss. Her experience includes working alongside cancer patients and their families during high-stress periods and through bereavement.

Caruso practices an integrative, multimodal approach that adapts to each person’s needs and personality. She draws on client-centered principles to build a collaborative therapeutic relationship, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and psychodynamic and narrative tools to explore underlying patterns and personal stories. She also incorporates practical methods such as contracting, journaling, and creative exercises when they suit a client’s goals.

Her work spans relationship and family concerns, grief and bereavement, career and life transitions, trauma and addiction, parenting and caregiver stress, and issues of intimacy, self-esteem, and anger. Through a focus on hope, support, and practical strategies, Maria aims to help people find meaning and forward movement at whatever stage of life they are facing.