Maria Grimshaw-Clark, LCSW

Maria Grimshaw-Clark is an LCSW with 34 years of clinical experience based in Virginia. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship problems, family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, anger, self-esteem, and bipolar-related issues. She helps people notice how old coping habits keep them stuck and find better ways of responding.

Her approach is practical and conversational. Sessions focus on clear goals and small changes that make daily life easier. Maria uses skills training, mindfulness, and communication work so people can manage strong feelings and repair strained relationships.

She has spent decades working with individuals, couples, and families and brings that broad perspective into sessions. Her background includes family mental health and systems theory, which she applies when relationship patterns are part of the problem.

Maria also draws on cognitive-behavioral methods and dialectical behavior ideas to help people shift unhelpful thinking and learn emotion regulation skills. She combines those tools with mindfulness and meditation practices when clients want that option.

People who come to her for anger concerns often learn practical techniques to notice escalation, step back from reactive responses, and communicate what matters without shutting down. The work emphasizes replacing quick fixes with more sustainable strategies that reduce repeated conflict over time.

How her approaches translate to online work