About Maria
Maria Connolly is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship problems and depression. Maria also supports those navigating LGBT concerns and people wrestling with motivation and confidence.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy easier by offering a warm and non-judgemental space. Maria draws on her own experience of having attended therapy to create an approachable atmosphere.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to let clients speak openly and make sense of difficult thoughts and feelings. In practice she listens closely and works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Conversations cover what is happening now and how past experiences might still be affecting day-to-day life.
Maria pays attention to patterns such as attachment and codependency, and she helps people explore choices and boundaries. She also supports people dealing with body image worries, chronic illness or pain, guilt and shame, isolation, and issues around control and abandonment. Practical strategies and small experiments between sessions are used to build confidence and manage anxiety.
Maria prefers a straightforward, compassionate approach. She encourages honest feedback about what helps and what does not, so the work can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Maria uses established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people with anxiety and stress. One approach focuses on practical problem solving and behavioural experiments to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits; this helps when anxiety feels overwhelming and you want manageable steps forward. Another emphasises exploring attachment and relational patterns to understand how past relationships influence current worries and relationship difficulties; this can help with loneliness, codependency and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is usually a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss goals and try methods together to see what fits. If something doesn’t feel helpful, it can be adjusted so the work stays relevant to your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and access consistent support from registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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