ABOUT ME
Maria Eugenia Castillo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida specializing in burnout recovery, midlife transitions, and bilingual therapy for women.
Meet Maria Eugenia Castillo, LCSW.
Bilingual therapist specializing in burnout, midlife transitions, and identity reclamation for women in Florida.
Midlife does not have to be something that happens to you. With the right support, it can be the season where you finally get to choose.
You are here because you deserve a therapist who actually gets it.
Something I have noticed, after years of sitting down and talking with women in this work, is that the ones who are the hardest on themselves are almost always the ones who have given the most. They come in describing themselves as stuck, lost, broken, or unsure of what is wrong, and what I actually see is someone who has been carrying an extraordinary amount for a very long time, with very little permission to put any of it down.
That observation is why I do this work, and it has become the lens through which I do it.
You may be tired of people who do not understand what you mean when you say you’re exhausted, of people who tell you that what you need is to relax, and of others who give you the well-intentioned self-care recommendations that simply do not cut it.
The good news is that, if you are looking for someone who understands not only the clinical version of what you’re going through, but the lived version, the one shaped by culture, by family, by decades of being everything to everyone else but not quite enough to yourself, you’re in the right spot.
About Me
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Florida and the founder of Another Angle Counseling Services. I work exclusively with adult women, in English, in Spanish, and sometimes in the particular blend that emerges when you have lived between two languages your whole life. My clinical focus is burnout, midlife transitions, and identity loss, the experiences that tend to arrive quietly, without a single dramatic event. After years of showing up for everyone else, these women are exhausted in a way that rest alone doesn't fix, because what they're tired of isn't just the doing, it's the disappearing.
Who I Work With
My clients are capable women who are often high-functioning and the ones everyone else relies on. From the outside, they look like they have it together, but from the inside, many of them can't remember the last time they made a decision that was just for themselves.
I work with women who are:
Burned out and feel not just tired, but depleted, in a way that has started to affect how they see themselves.
In the middle of a midlife transition, questioning identity, purpose, relationships, or the roles they have outgrown but have not yet let go of.
Grieving a version of themselves they have lost touch with, even if nothing "bad" has technically happened.
Ready to stop operating on autopilot and start choosing their life on purpose.
My Clinical Approach
I work from the understanding that my clients are in the middle of real developmental and emotional transitions, not a crisis to be fixed, but a turning point to be met with the right support. Midlife, in particular, is often marked by grief, reevaluation, relational shifts, and a quiet but powerful questioning of who someone is beyond the roles that they have carried for years, sometimes decades. That questioning is not a breakdown, it is an opening, an invitation.
My clinical focus centers on helping emotionally exhausted clients reconnect with themselves in a way that is intentional and sustainable, not another to-do list, not another role to perform, but a real, grounded relationship with who they are.
The way I work is direct and warm in equal measure. I want you to feel comfortable when we come together for our sessions, but I do not want you to feel comfortable in a story that is keeping you stuck. I respect your pace and will never push you faster than you are ready to go. I ask questions that go beneath the surface, and I notice what you say and what you don't. I am grounded and compassionate, and I do not believe in therapy that just sits with you in the discomfort. I believe in therapy that transforms you and helps you move through life intentionally and at a pace that is sustainable for you. Over time, my clients tell me that if they had known what therapy was really all about, they would have started it earlier.
Why I Founded This Practice
I founded Another Angle Counseling Services because I kept watching capable, devoted women disappear into their own lives. It was not a dramatic event; it was a quiet and passive one. Another little bit of themselves was handed over every year to a job, a family, a role, an expectation, until one day they looked up and were not sure who was left underneath it all. They were in a quiet search for who they were outside of what they did for everyone else.
And the truth is, that several years ago, I too had been in that place. I knew what it was like to want to get off this ride, to pause a bit before getting back on, to have felt invisible, to have lost interest in what used to give me joy, to wish I had less responsibilities, to have looked at myself in the mirror and barely recognizing who I saw, and to question how I had gotten to this unplanned destination. My life was good, but everything felt overwhelming, and I had no desire or energy for anything. I realized I could not continue on the same path, something needed to change. I needed help in finding joy again and in shutting off the autopilot survival mode I was on. I started seeking advice from professionals, but the typical recommendations were to plan some vacation, to engage in stress-releasing activities, and to give it time, for it should pass. But, one day, I learned about burnout, how it shows up, how we get there, and what can be done about it. It was a real eye-opener for me, as I had finally discovered that there was a word that accurately described what I was experiencing. It was not weakness, tiredness, laziness, or craziness. It was burnout. And there was a way out of it.
I came to learn that burnout was very common, and that many women experience it but do not know what to call it. I saw it clearly in women around me, especially those in that age when they finally feel safe enough to pause the survival mode. It is in this critical moment, that I would see them trying to reconnect with who they used to be, and I would witness a renewed version of themselves emerge. This new version seemed to be stronger, happier, and more genuine. It was the renewed version of themselves that was making their own voice a priority, instead of prioritizing the voice of others. It was the version that showed up with more confidence, with more purpose, more comfortable, and ready to take action steps toward something they really wanted.
Going through my own experience, and seeing what other women were going through as well, led me to want to help those women who still feel increasingly disconnected from their lives and from themselves. It became important to me for other women to know that there is a way out, a path for them to connect to themselves and to their lives again. I still believe this, and that belief is the foundation for everything I do here, every session, every space I hold, every question I ask. Through therapy, I can help you rewrite the narratives that no longer serve you, giving you a new perspective, or another angle.
Bilingual and Bicultural Care
A significant part of my practice is rooted in cultural competence for Latina and bicultural women. This is not a credential I acquired, but it is a lens I have lived.
I am bilingual and bicultural, and my own experience of living between cultures meaningfully shapes both my clinical voice and the space I create for my clients. I understand what it means to hold multiple identities at once, to navigate the expectations that come with family and culture, to feel the particular weight of being raised to be strong and self-sacrificing and never quite learning what to do with your own needs.
When my clients sit with me, they do not have to explain the cultural context or translate the feeling before they express it. That is what I mean when I say: Conmigo, no necesitas intérprete. With me, you don't need an interpreter, not for your language, and not for the parts of your experience that only make sense in the context of where you come from.
I offer therapy entirely in English and entirely in Spanish. Sessions are not translated but fully held in each language, or a combination of both languages. I offer in-person services throughout South Florida and via telehealth across the entire state of Florida.
Beyond the Practice
Outside of my practice, I find joy in family life, and I am drawn to photography, music, and film, not necessarily as interests that exist separately from my work, but as extensions of the same belief that drives it.
Through stories told via these forms, there is power to transform a moment, a feeling, or a life and reframe it into something you can finally see clearly. A song can name a grief you have been carrying for years without language, or a single film scene can crack open something you thought you had resolved. Therapy, at its best, does the same thing. I help women move from the story of what is wrong to the story of who they are becoming. Therapy with me is not there to fix you, it is there to help you see yourself or a situation from an angle you haven’t tried yet. That belief, in fact, is where the name of my practice, Another Angle Counseling, comes from.
Credentials
Maria Eugenia Castillo, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, State of Florida (#SW19927)
Founder, Another Angle Counseling Services, LLC
Ready to Begin?
If you are a woman in South Florida or anywhere in Florida looking for a bilingual therapist who works with burnout, midlife transitions, or identity reclamation, and you want someone who will be honest with you, stay with you, and believe in your capacity to change even on the days you don't, I would be glad to talk.
Get the support that is right for you.
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Burnout Recovery Therapy
For women who are exhausted from years of chronic over-functioning and seek to reclaim rest, boundaries, and themselves.
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Midlife Transition Therapy
For women navigating midlife, empty nest, divorce, career change, loss, or any shift that has left them questioning who they are now.
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Identity Reclamation Therapy
For women who have lost themselves inside their roles and are ready to rediscover who they are beyond what they do for others.
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Terapia en Español
Para mujeres latinas que prefieren terapia completamente en español, con plena competencia cultural y bilingüe.