Maria Grimshaw-Clark, LCSW

Maria Grimshaw-Clark is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship problems. She focuses on practical changes that reduce emotional pain and create healthier patterns in daily life. Maria aims to help people replace old coping habits with tools that feel usable and realistic.

She brings a background in family mental health and systems theory to sessions, which informs how she looks at relationship and family concerns. Her work integrates cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and respond differently. She also uses parts of dialectical behavior ideas and the Gottman Method when relationships are a central focus.

Maria typically helps people untangle issues like attachment struggles, communication problems, infidelity, blended family stress, caregiver burden, and codependency. She also supports clients facing anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, and midlife shifts. Her approach tends to be client-centered and straightforward.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and then suggests small experiments to try between visits. Clients can expect practical skills, mindfulness exercises, and steps to strengthen relationship interactions.

To begin, a person selects times that fit their schedule and can message about alternate options if needed. Maria works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English.

Approaches that guide online relationship work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's goals. It helps people feel heard and supports them in finding their own solutions to stress and relationship strain.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and communication problems.

The Gottman Method offers concrete tools for improving how partners talk and handle conflict. When relationship problems are central, these techniques help make small changes that improve interactions over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That partnership guides whether sessions emphasize mindfulness practice, CBT skills, or relationship-focused exercises.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to schedule therapy around daily life, fit shorter check-ins into a lunch break, or avoid travel time. It also allows people to practice skills between sessions in the settings where problems usually occur.