Maribel Rodriguez is a transformational speaker, emotional resilience expert, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and retired U.S. Air Force combat veteran dedicated to helping people move from surviving to truly thriving.  From coping to wholeness from overflow!

With more than 30 years of leadership, teaching, mentoring, and training experience across military, corporate, nonprofit, educational, and clinical settings, Maribel brings a rare depth of wisdom to her work. Her approach integrates evidence-based tools such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), trauma-informed care, emotional intelligence, leadership development, and faith-rooted insight to help individuals, leaders, families, and organizations create meaningful, lasting change.

Maribel’s path into counseling was not simply a career decision — it was a calling. Originally pursuing ministry and theological education, she discovered through her own healing journey that her life’s work was to sit with people in the places where others had lost hope. That calling became especially clear when she encountered the stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder and emotional dysregulation. Where others saw people as “too difficult” or “beyond help,” Maribel saw the need for compassion, practical tools, and the belief that change was still possible.

That conviction led her to become deeply trained in DBT, a therapeutic approach that gives people real-life skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, communication, and relational effectiveness. Over the years, she has watched clients who once felt stuck, overwhelmed, misunderstood, or hopeless begin to experience freedom, stability, healthier relationships, and lives that feel worth living.