About Maria
Maria Van Vreden is a counsellor with ten years' experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She also helps with depression, low self-esteem, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.
She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgment. Sessions focus on listening, understanding patterns, and building small, usable strategies to manage difficult moments.
Background and approach
Maria uses everyday language and keeps sessions practical and readable for people under pressure. In longer work she explores relationship patterns and attachment concerns, addressing issues such as abandonment, communication problems and divorce or separation. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, body image worries, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation or purposelessness.
Maria is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated as BACP, and works from the United Kingdom. She speaks English and Spanish and accepts clients internationally. Her practice offers a range of online session types to fit different lifestyles.
To begin, she helps people set clear, achievable goals and checks in regularly on progress. The focus is on what will help day to day - reducing panic, improving mood, and finding steadier ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Approaches that help with anxiety and trauma online
Maria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real problems and practical coping skills. One common approach helps people understand and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that fuel anxiety and panic; it teaches simple tools to reduce worry and to manage anxiety in the moment. Another approach looks at the impact of past trauma and attachment patterns on current relationships and reactions, helping people make sense of painful memories and build steadier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will explore your concerns, goals and preferences and then agree a way of working together. This is a collaborative process with regular checks to see what is helping and what might need to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see body language and have fuller conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want brief check-ins, or need to fit support around a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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