

Whether you're grieving a parent, partner, sibling, or friend, Headway offers specialized grief counseling in Fernandina Beach. Our 5,753 providers use trauma-informed techniques and meaning-making approaches to help you navigate loss and find your path forward with flexible scheduling.
“Warm, practical, and empowering therapy to help you move beyond anxiety and into lasting change.”
My specialty & love are helping individuals at transition points of their lives, with a focus from Adolescence to Mid-life and beyond. These are times of dealing with many changes in one's life. These changes may include family, friends, and your role in community. This is also a time when we are surrounded with "Transition Myths" i.e.; How we should be feeling, acting and thinking. Some of these are Memory Loss, Depression, Physical Fitness, Sexuality. My goals are to educate and separate myth from fact while helping YOU ease life's transitions so YOU can continue YOUR life with new hopes, dreams, respect and dignity.
Hello and welcome. I'm Maria Nazario, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with many years of experience helping people navigate life's hardest moments. I work with adolescents, adults, and seniors facing grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and women's issues, as well as identity and family struggles. Together we'll honor your story, build on your strengths, and move toward the fulfilling life you deserve.
I bring a compassionate, approachable style to my work. With a solid professional background and continued training, I focus on providing individualized support tailored to each client’s goals. I specialize in areas that allow me to help clients build clarity, confidence, and meaningful progress in their lives.
I have more than 30 years of experience in the behavioral health field and have been in private practice since 2003. I work with adults, older adults, adolescents, individuals, and families who are navigating anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, grief, stress, relationship challenges, ADHD, anger, impulse control, substance use concerns, cultural or ethnic issues, and major life transitions. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology in Cuba in 1982 and later completed my Master’s degree at Florida International University in 1998. My background has shaped a warm, culturally sensitive, and practical approach to therapy.
I understand that reaching out for support can feel difficult at first. My goal is to help clients feel safe, respected, and supported as they take that courageous first step toward feeling better and becoming a healthier version of themselves.


Headway makes it easy to find a therapist who can support you through loss — from finding the right provider, to understanding costs, to scheduling with ease.
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