About Maryia
Maryia Farooq is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She also supports clients living with depression, trauma and abuse, and those dealing with life changes such as grief, separation or career shifts. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging, aimed at people who feel stuck and want a different way forward.
Maryia works from the belief that each person knows their story best. She treats clients as partners and builds on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon or lengthy theory. Taking the first step is seen as an act of courage, and she offers steady support through that process. With three years of professional experience, Maryia brings practical experience from UK practice settings.
Her credential is BACP, which denotes membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She uses this background to guide conversations and set realistic goals. In the room she aims for calm, direct conversations that include exercises people can try between sessions.
Topics often include coping strategies for anxiety, routines to improve sleep, ways to manage anger, and tools to rebuild self-esteem. She also supports people working through eating and body image concerns. Sessions can cover practical life issues such as parenting stress, career decisions and caregiving strain.
Maryia offers a collaborative style that helps clients identify small, achievable changes and track progress over time.
Approaches that help online and in conversation
Maryia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One approach she commonly employs involves teaching coping strategies for anxiety and stress - short exercises and structured practices that reduce immediate tension and improve day-to-day functioning. These are useful for panic, ongoing worry and overwhelming stress.She also works with techniques aimed at improving relationships and attachment patterns. This involves exploring communication habits, identifying repeated patterns and practising alternative responses to reduce conflict and build more dependable connections. These approaches help with commitment worries, abandonment concerns and intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that match your needs and adjust the plan as you progress. Clients and the counsellor decide together which techniques to keep using.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller connection is wanted, while phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching or when shorter, written exchanges fit better into a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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