Maria Abada, LPC

Maria Abada is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with more than 16 years of experience in the mental health field. She has practiced across a range of treatment settings including residential programs, partial care, outpatient clinics, in-home services, and addiction treatment, building broad experience with varying clinical needs and levels of care.

Her clinical focus centers on anxiety, family and relationship conflicts, major life transitions, and complex trauma and abuse. Over the past five years she has also developed specialized experience supporting people with perinatal mental health concerns, including postpartum issues and pregnancy-related adjustment challenges. She works with mood concerns such as depression, anger, grief, and struggles with self-esteem while also addressing family problems and women s health topics.

Maria draws on a person-centered, holistic, multicultural, and integrative framework. She begins where each person is and tailors interventions to individual needs, acknowledging how cultural identity and lifestyle shape experience. Her practice blends evidence-based techniques - including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing - with solution-focused methods and trauma-informed care, while also incorporating more classical counseling approaches when useful.

Her therapeutic style is warm and supportive and emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients set concrete goals and work steadily toward wellness rather than seeking quick fixes, viewing mental health as a process that benefits from consistent effort. Maria is currently available to provide services to female clients in New Jersey and by remote modalities as described elsewhere on her profile.