Maria Moua Therapy, LLC

More often than not, when I meet with people, they feel like they have tried everything. I don’t believe in wasting people’s time nor insisting upon unnecessary tools and tactics. I am highly attentive to each person’s struggles, strengths, and needs. I prefer to begin to identify your specific goals right away and start focusing on developing tools and strategies for you and your significant relationships.

I prioritize to walk with you in essentially every step of your journey. My goal is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life. I am passionate about strengthening roles and relationships in families to help them build deeper and more meaningful connections. My patients tell me that I have helped them by “thinking outside the box.” They feel that their voice and opinions are heard and validated by me. I believe that it is essential for of us to be empowered to identify inner strengths so that we can begin to live confidently, rather than in constant conflict.

My extensive background and experience enables for me to offer effective outpatient, individualized, holistic, psychological and relational care for people who come from diverse backgrounds. I treat a wide range of mental health disorders and am able provide a neutral ground to individuals, families, and couples. I work with patients of all ages. Younger patients are often paired with their parents for relationship-focused and parent-coaching settings.

I specialize in the following:

Communication
Pre-marital/marital/couples therapy
Parent coaching
Parent-child conflict (including attachment, school issues, running away, behavior, power-struggles, and violence)
Self-empowerment while also balancing through the delicacies of family, friendships and other significant relationships.
Self-growth/self-esteem – including issues involving feeling attractive, confident, having magnetism/charisma, keeping healthy boundaries and self-advocating.
Anxiety / Social Anxiety / OCD
Depression
Stress / Life Transitions
Dealing with insecurities
Life coaching – including issues involving singleness and dating, financial management, finding purpose in life
Grief and loss, including complex and ambiguous loss
Loneliness
Trauma / PTSD
Bipolar / Mood dysregulation issues
Holistic healing
Perinatal/Postpartum mental health issues
Struggling with having a personality disorder (PD) or having a family member or significant other with a PD (including Narcissistic PD, Borderline PD, OCPD, and Histrionic PD)
Divorce Therapy and Collaborative Divorce
Culturally specific issues
Nutritional health and integration with mental health
Spiritual growth and exploration
Relaxation techniques and guided imagery

I can communicate in both Hmong and English. I can also provide help to Hmong patients to navigate issues around cultural clashes between Hmong and American values, as well as religious conflicts between the Christian and Shaman beliefs/issues.