About Maria
Maria Polverino is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety and stress along with relationship and family concerns. She works with people facing trauma, depression, addictions and grief. Maria also helps with intimacy and sleeping problems, self‑esteem struggles and coping with life changes.
She speaks English and practices in the United Kingdom. Maria believes people know their own story and bring strengths to the work. She offers a calm, encouraging presence and helps clients name what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make small, practical changes that fit into day‑to‑day life. Her approach draws on evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural work and attachment‑based ideas. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and an emotion‑focused style when helpful.
These approaches are used to look at thoughts, feelings and relationship patterns and find workable ways forward. Maria has six years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She frames goals collaboratively and adjusts pace to each person’s needs.
People can expect straightforward conversations and tools they can try between sessions. For people who prefer not to meet in person, Maria offers a range of remote session types. She works with clients who are navigating adoption or foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges and other complex situations.
Her style is practical, warm and focused on helping people make steady progress.
Approaches that translate well to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and is often used for anxiety, sleeping problems and depression. Attachment‑Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people change how they relate in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest a blend of methods where useful. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as the work progresses.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. Video is useful when visual contact helps build a working relationship. Phone sessions can be easier when someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check‑ins and people who prefer writing. These options allow therapy to fit around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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