Maria DaSilva (she/ella/ela)

Maria DaSilva is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with over eight years of clinical experience supporting individuals across the lifespan. She earned her Master’s degree from Boston College in 2018 and has worked in diverse settings including child welfare, community health centers, and schools. These experiences have shaped her holistic, culturally responsive, and systems-informed approach to care. Maria works primarily with adults in both individual and group settings. She is fluent in Cape Verdean Creole and Spanish, which allows her to support clients navigating cultural identity, acculturation, and intergenerational experiences with greater depth and understanding. Her clinical foundation is rooted in psychodynamic and attachment-based work, with a focus on exploring relational patterns, early experiences, and how attachment dynamics influence current emotional functioning. Maria integrates Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients build mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and healthy coping strategies. She believes that lasting change occurs when insight, self-awareness, and practical skills are developed together. Maria is passionate about self-care and self-healing. She believes in meeting clients where they are and creating a safe, collaborative space for processing, reflection, and growth. Her goal is to help clients strengthen their sense of self, develop secure attachment patterns, and cultivate resilience in the face of life’s challenges. Maria specializes in working with concerns related to abandonment, adjustment disorders, anxiety, cultural adjustment, depression, grief, headaches/migraines, mindfulness, sleep and insomnia, trauma, work stress, and burnout. Outside of her clinical work, Maria enjoys spending time with her family and friends, hiking, practicing yoga and meditation, and dancing to Latin music.