Maria Russo

Maria Russo is a Colorado-licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of professional experience guiding people toward greater well-being and personal growth. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Master of Social Work, and she combines formal training with decades of personal work overcoming childhood trauma.

Throughout her career Maria has learned from many clients over the last 22 years and from long-term self-exploration, studying with experienced practitioners and integrating therapeutic traditions into her practice. She has supported people coping with depression, anxiety, life transitions, low self-esteem and confidence, grief, communication and relationship difficulties, addictions, and other challenges.

Specializing in childhood trauma, Maria aims to help clients awaken to new possibilities for growth and to identify the strengths that will move them from merely surviving to thriving - from victim consciousness to a more victorious life. Her work is focused on people who want more love, more peace, more joy, greater authenticity, and deeper, more meaningful relationships with themselves and others.

Maria helps clients explore how past traumas contribute to unhealthy reactions and choices that can look like anger, depression, anxiety, unresolved grief, or addictions to substances and behaviors such as drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, sex, and shopping. In therapy she guides individuals to recognize what keeps them stuck, build coping and problem-solving skills, deepen their spiritual life, learn to live more fully in the present, and recover a sense of their own innate goodness and beauty.

She holds Colorado licensure recorded as CO LCSW CSW.00000833 and practices from a perspective that sees people as wounded rather than bad. Maria believes that integrating painful experiences into the healthier parts of oneself supports the shift toward who a person truly came to be. She would be honored to accompany someone on that journey.