About Maria-Ann
Maria-Ann Bulley provides calm, practical support for people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or big life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on small, workable steps that make day-to-day life feel easier. Maria-Ann aims to create a steady space where someone can say what is on their mind and begin to make changes at their own pace.
She uses straightforward approaches to help people manage symptoms and rebuild confidence after loss, trauma or relationship problems.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking things through, checking which thoughts or routines get in the way, and trying out simple experiments between meetings. The work is collaborative - goals are shaped around what matters most to the person coming for help. Maria-Ann has 22 years of experience supporting people with grief, depression, self-esteem, sleeping problems and a wide range of stress-related issues.
She also supports those affected by abuse, domestic violence, infertility struggles, caregiving strain and chronic illness. Her background includes long-term counselling for common workplace and life pressures as well as more complex personal histories. Her approaches include client-centred conversations that follow the person’s lead, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns, and solution-focused techniques to set practical short-term goals.
These methods are used flexibly to suit each person’s needs. Maria-Ann works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. She accepts international clients and can provide therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to get started.
Approaches used online and how they help
Client-centred therapy puts the person's concerns front and centre and involves careful listening, reflection and support to help someone find their own answers. It suits people who want a reflective space to talk through feelings and make gradual changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, lift mood and improve sleep. It often includes simple exercises and experiments to try between sessions. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable goals and what already works. It can be useful when someone wants short-term change or clear steps to reduce stress and move forward.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, listen to the client’s goals and try different techniques to find what fits best. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and visual rapport, phone calls can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth, and messaging options can support quick check-ins or continuing work between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy going around work, travel or family commitments and to choose the style that feels most manageable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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