Maria B. Wiggins

Maria B. Wiggins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who received her Masters of Social Work from New York University. She has over 13 years of practice experience. Prior to joining Lakewood, her career began working in the Bronx, NY serving women in high risk situations throughout their pregnancies. She later worked for the Department of the Army for 7 years treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brian Injury (TBI).

Maria’s areas of specialty include treating trauma, anxiety, relationship problems, and stress management. She draws from an eclectic pool of frameworks. She is passionate about tailoring a unique and individualized treatment plan for each of her clients. She believes in a holistic approach and integrates auricular acupuncture (if requested) into her care to enhance a mind-body connection. She is trained in several evidenced based modalities, but uses EMDR the most often.  She has dedicated years to honing her craft of EMDR, becoming a certified EMDR therapist and studying under experts in the field in order to help each of her clients connect their present-day struggles to past events and empower them to create the future vision of their dreams.

Seeing the impact of burnout, compassion fatigue, and limited supervision within the field, Maria has made it one of her career missions to provide exceptional clinical supervision, case consultation, and education to the mental health field. She is a Board Approved Supervisor and an EMDR Consultant in Training (CIT) and is accepting individuals for clinical supervision and colleagues for consultation. She is in the process of designing courses to assist in the field as well.

In her spare time, Maria enjoys spending time with her family, reading, traveling, trying new food, and hiking.