Who does Maria Cordero work with?

Children, adults, and families, in English or Spanish, whichever language you think and feel in most easily.

Where does Maria Cordero see clients?

Maria Cordero sees clients at Bayview Therapy in Plantation and Coral Springs, Florida, and online by telehealth anywhere in Florida. Call 954-391-5305 for a complimentary phone consultation.

What does Maria Cordero specialize in?

Counseling for adults, EMDR therapy, Counseling for children, Faith based counseling, Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and hypnosis.

Maria Cordero, LMHC | EMDR Therapy & Hypnotherapy in Plantation, FL

Q: What is Maria Cordero’s approach to therapy?

A safe space to be yourself: I provide you with a safe and comfortable space where you are welcome to be your true self. My goal is to make you feel understood, valued, and excited to work toward improving yourself. Integrative and tailored: Every individual is different, so I offer a unique approach to counseling to help you achieve your goals. I employ effective techniques and strategies that are tailored to your unique needs. Even the worst circumstances can change: I believe that every event in our lives, even the worst circumstances, can be changed by reversing mental patterns to achieve happiness.

Everyone can find healing from emotional pain.

I am passionate about the role I play in helping others overcome personal challenges while promoting meaningful and purposeful lives. My primary goal is to assist you in embracing more positive and helpful thinking patterns and implementing emotional regulation skills to promote positive behavior and lasting lifestyle changes.

Perhaps you’re experiencing higher-than-normal levels of anxiety or depression. Maybe you’ve been hurt in the past and find it difficult to let go and move on with your life. Or maybe you’re struggling to cope with the changes that are happening around you.

Regardless of what brings you to read my page, I want you to know that I am here for you and I can help you overcome whatever challenges you might be facing so you can move forward in a positive direction. I believe that everyone can find healing from emotional pain and has the capacity to utilize what once seemed like adversity as the catalyst for making positive monumental changes.

I am a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida, providing counseling, EMDR therapy and Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy in English and Spanish.

Helping you heal from the past, embrace your strengths, and create a brighter future.

Life’s challenges can sometimes leave us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or weighed down by painful experiences. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, or difficult life transitions, you deserve a supportive space to heal, rediscover your strengths, and move forward with greater confidence and peace.

Maria Cordero, LMHC, is a bilingual Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified EMDR Therapist who provides compassionate, personalized counseling for children, adults, and families. With more than a decade of experience, she helps clients overcome emotional challenges, process difficult experiences, develop healthier coping skills, and create meaningful changes in their lives.

Maria specializes in trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, emotional regulation, and personal growth. Through individual counseling, EMDR therapy, and heart-centered hypnotherapy, she takes an integrative approach to helping adults explore the underlying patterns and experiences that may be keeping them stuck, while developing greater self-awareness, resilience, and emotional well-being.

With a special passion for working with children, Maria incorporates play therapy, sand tray therapy, art therapy-informed techniques, and child-focused EMDR to help young clients express their emotions, build confidence, and work through difficult experiences. She also partners with parents to strengthen family connections, establish healthy boundaries, and support their children’s emotional and behavioral development.

Recognizing that healing is deeply personal, Maria offers a compassionate, collaborative, and culturally sensitive approach that honors each client’s unique experiences, values, and goals. For those who wish to incorporate faith or spirituality into counseling, she can also integrate these beliefs into the therapeutic process.

Maria offers counseling, EMDR therapy, and heart-centered hypnotherapy in English and Spanish at Bayview Therapy’s Plantation office, along with convenient online counseling throughout Florida via our secure telehealth platform.

Her goal is to help you and your loved ones heal from emotional pain, discover new possibilities, and create a life filled with greater confidence, connection, and fulfillment.

Counseling for adults

In my work as a counselor, I have obtained extensive experience working with mental health issues like anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, low self-esteem, and grief and loss. In my journey, I have worked with all ethnic backgrounds and various client populations.

Individual therapy for adults is a process of discovery that allows us to overcome difficult moments and solve conflicts. I will guide you through obtaining self-knowledge and internal balance, overcoming blocks and obstacles, and finding the meaning of life that you so deeply search for.

I believe in helping people achieve self-actualization by identifying personal strengths and embracing self-determination. I want to help you heal the wounds of the past that keep you stuck so you can overcome the obstacles in the present that prevent you from living a happy and healthy life.

EMDR therapy

EMDR therapy is an integrative approach proven effective in alleviating the distress associated with painful memories, feelings, or sensations. It is a form of therapy that helps you heal from the effects trauma causes in your mind, body, and behavior and achieve emotional regulation by understanding the connection between the self and the body.

When someone has been through a traumatic event or intense continuous disturbing experiences, the information processing could be blocked or fragmented in the nervous system. This information can be activated automatically, conditioning your behavior and negatively affecting your life.

EMDR therapy is not exclusively used to process traumatic events but also to treat anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, phobias, PTSD, psychosomatic problems, grief, addictive behaviors, and more. I want to help you break the trauma cycle to create new pathways to personal healing.

As an EMDR certified therapist, I have gone through extensive training and have been practicing for years. It would be my pleasure to help you and your loved ones overcome a variety of challenges through EMDR techniques.

Counseling for children

Working with children is one of my biggest passions. It has become a privilege to help improve their lives and their families lives. My objective is to help children become more confident as they grow, learn how to express their emotions effectively, and understand how to solve their internal conflicts.

To help clients and their families meet their goals, I rely upon the therapeutic power of Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, and Art Therapy informed techniques.

As a certified EMDR therapist, I offer EMDR therapy for children, what I call Playful EMDR. Traumatic experiences in children can have devastating effects that can last long-term, interfering with their well-being at home, in school, and in their relationships with others. Unresolved trauma can lead to issues in mental, emotional, and physical health in adulthood.

I understand that being a parent can be challenging at times. You don’t have to struggle alone. I have made it my mission to guide parents’ growth to create a safe attachment, support emotional regulation, set healthy boundaries with love, deal with problematic behaviors, and become fully present in their children’s lives.

Faith based counseling

Upon request, I include faith and spirituality in my clinical work as part of my integrative approach. A faith-based counseling approach allows people to find healing through their spiritual beliefs rather than purely relying on their cognitive abilities.

When there is a deep spiritual concern, learning to use your faith as a strength is the first step to helping you overcome your problems. When we are connected to our faith, we find help when we need it the most.

In faith based counseling, my goal is to help you explore your spirituality and resolve your doubts. I provide a safe space to invite clients to explore how their faith or spiritual beliefs can be a transformative tool in the therapeutic process.

Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and hypnosis

Heart-centered hypnotherapy has been used for over a century to help reprogram the subconscious mind. A big part of human suffering results from negative thoughts and beliefs that invade our minds subconsciously and influence our emotions and behaviors, affecting our mental and physical health and preventing happiness and growth.

Heart-centered hypnotherapy is the process of psychotherapy with a client in a hypnotic state. It has many applications in healing a long list of medical and psychological conditions like allergies, pain, depression, unhealthy behaviors, anxiety, and trauma and PTSD, because it focuses on stress reduction and relaxation. It works because it helps people explore the root of their conflicts and sets them free from experiences and circumstances they have not been able to resolve.

Hypnotherapy has also been used successfully to help people quit smoking and lose weight. If you have found yourself numerous times trying to quit tobacco or release weight, hypnotherapy can be of great help. The Trimline and Clean Break programs were created to guide you to discover the unhealthy emotional patterns in the subconscious mind in order to change them.

I utilize hypnosis as a tool for client empowerment and self-knowledge. The goal is to extinguish destructive emotions and behavioral patterns and change them into new positive conclusions, make new decisions, and increase the spiritual connection and the heart-centered love within ourselves.

How Maria works.

A safe space to be yourself

I provide you with a safe and comfortable space where you are welcome to be your true self. My goal is to make you feel understood, valued, and excited to work toward improving yourself.

Integrative and tailored

Every individual is different, so I offer a unique approach to counseling to help you achieve your goals. I employ effective techniques and strategies that are tailored to your unique needs.

Even the worst circumstances can change

I believe that every event in our lives, even the worst circumstances, can be changed by reversing mental patterns to achieve happiness.

Great Care Starts With Connection. Meet Maria’s Colleagues.

Maria is proud to be part of Bayview Therapy’s diverse team of experienced therapists and psychologists. Each clinician brings unique specialties, perspectives, and approaches, all sharing a commitment to compassionate, personalized care.

We invite you to get to know some of the wonderful professionals Maria works alongside.

Meet Our Team