Dr. Maria-Christina Kosteli, BACP

How her approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely, reflects feelings and helps clients make sense of their own goals. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive space to talk through grief, life changes or relationship worries.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviours. It often uses practical exercises between sessions, such as thought records or behavioural experiments, to reduce anxiety and manage stress more effectively.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships by working with emotions directly. It is often used when relationship difficulties or attachment concerns are part of someone’s distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that suit the person. That collaborative process can involve mixing techniques and reviewing what helps most over time.

Online sessions allow flexible contact by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls suit quieter bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, and messaging can be useful for shorter or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, childcare or travel and to keep continuity when circumstances change.