About Mariya
Mariya Henderson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on stress and anxiety. She has nine years of professional experience and speaks English and Russian. Mariya aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can begin to work on difficult feelings and daily struggles.
Her sessions are grounded in a person-centred way of working. That means conversations start with what matters most to the client and move at the client’s pace.
Background and approach
Mariya also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques when thoughts or patterns are getting in the way of daily life. She often helps people dealing with relationship tensions, family and parenting concerns, grief, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, eating and food-related problems, anger, bipolar mood challenges, depression, and difficult life changes.
Mariya pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues when these come up. In practical terms sessions are shaped around each person's goals. Mariya works to clarify what is causing stress, to identify unhelpful patterns, and to rehearse different ways of responding.
Conversations include exploring feelings, trying out new perspectives, and setting small steps to make daily life more manageable. She describes her role as supportive and empowering rather than directive. People who prefer a warm, listening approach with occasional practical tools may find her style helpful as they work through change.
How Mariya's approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It looks at how early connections shape current trust, boundaries and intimacy, and it helps people understand and change repeated ways of relating.Client-centred therapy places the client's concerns at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens with empathy and follows the client's pace, helping people name feelings and make choices without pressure.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try alternative actions. It is useful for managing anxiety, low mood and stressful thinking in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mariya will discuss options with clients and agree a plan together based on needs, goals and personal preferences. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for short check-ins, while live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer writing or want more frequent brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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