About Maria
Maria Casson Greco is a BACP counsellor who draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how their past shapes their present. She speaks English and Portuguese and offers therapy to people in the United Kingdom. Maria focuses on anxiety alongside many other concerns, and she aims to help people feel clearer about themselves and their relationships.
Maria has worked in counselling for 11 years. She looks at recurring patterns in feelings and relationships to help people see where old hurts or family history still influence daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and reflective, with attention to emotions that come up in the room. Alongside psychodynamic work she draws on Jungian ideas about symbols and inner meaning. She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people stay present.
Solution-focused tools are sometimes used to set small, practical goals between sessions. People come to Maria for a wide range of issues - grief, stress, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy difficulties, self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, and parenting strains. She also supports people facing career changes, compassion fatigue, and the emotional effects of family problems.
Her approach balances understanding with practical steps. Maria aims to help clients notice patterns, practise new ways of relating, and try manageable changes. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How psychodynamic and mindfulness work online
Maria uses psychodynamic therapy to help people notice patterns that repeat in relationships and feelings. This approach looks at how past experiences shape current reactions and can be useful for anxiety, grief, relationship troubles and persistent mood concerns.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and grounding practices. These techniques help reduce rumination, manage stress, and make it easier to respond rather than react to difficult emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will talk with each person about their needs and goals and then choose together which ideas and techniques to use. This collaborative process means practical tools can sit alongside deeper reflection as appropriate.
Online formats offer several practical benefits. Video calls let you keep a visual connection similar to face-to-face work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions, or when writing feels more natural than talking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or mobility limits, while still allowing for reflective psychodynamic conversations and mindfulness practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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