About Maria
Maria Palej is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of clinical experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and with those facing relationship or family tensions. Sessions are offered in English and Polish to suit different needs.
Maria draws on a mix of client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to shape each session. She aims to listen carefully, reflect what she hears, and help people notice patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Practical steps and short-term goals are used where people want quicker changes. She has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, sleep or eating difficulties, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar. Other areas she addresses include intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem and career stress.
She also works on attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and family of origin problems. Maria describes her approach as collaborative. She invites clients to say what feels important and to set the pace and focus of the work.
Early sessions are used to understand current struggles and agree on what to try next. Therapy is offered through a range of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. The process starts with a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled session arranged around the client's availability.
Approaches that guide online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on hearing the person without judgement and reflecting what they say, which helps people feel understood and start to make sense of their feelings. This approach can suit anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship worries.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily reactions in the moment, and to respond rather than react. It is often useful for stress, panic and sleep difficulties because it gives practical tools to calm the body and mind.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then agree on a way of working together. That might mean using listening and reflection, trying short-term solution-focused steps, or adding mindful exercises as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works well for quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Polish
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