Maria Alonso, PhD
Maria Teresa Alonso is a Cuban-born licensed Psychologist in private practice for over 25 years. Her undergraduate years were spent at Swarthmore College and New York University and she completed her doctoral degree at Fordham University in New York City. She also engaged in post-graduate training at The Center for Anorexia and Bulimia and the Minuchin Center for the Family. Maria has most recently served as the Dean of Integrated Wellness and Learning at Westtown School in Pennsylvania.
Maria works with individuals across the life span and especially enjoys working with children, adolescents and adults in individual, group, couples and family therapy. While Maria has a psychoanalytic and family-systems foundation, she has acquired a myriad of tools from varied modalities (CBT, EFT, DBT, EMDR etc.) and her approach incorporates these tools and various perspectives to compliment and address her client’s needs. Maria believes in partnering with her clients and finding ways to empower them to create their own path for healing.
During the past fifteen years Maria has also developed an energy medicine practice that is founded on the Shamanic teachings of the Q-ero in Peru. She offers energetic healing sessions that address human struggles with Shamianic practices, including Illuminations, Extractions and Soul Retrievals. Maria also leads Medicine Wheel and Munay-Ki workshops for individuals interested in learning about the luminous energy body and energy medicine practices. This work offers clients an opportunity to heal the karmic and genetic wounds and beliefs they have inherited. In doing so, clients can learn to grow a new body that ages, heals, and dies differently.
In Maria’s free time, she plays the piano, guitar and composes when feeling inspired. She has founded two dual language schools with her sisters over the past two decades and is currently board president of Academia Antonia Alonso Charter School (named after her mother). Maria finds great joy in serving the growing and thriving Latino community in Delaware.