About Matteo
Matteo Oriani is a BACP counsellor who offers therapy in English and Italian. He works with people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or big life changes, and he supports those struggling with self‑esteem, relationship problems and recovery from addiction. He blends practical talking therapy with hands-on techniques.
Sessions can include mindfulness exercises, guided imagery and drawing work when helpful. Matteo draws on cognitive approaches and person-centred ideas to make sense of thoughts, feelings and habits.
Background and approach
Matteo helps people manage panic, insomnia and excessive worrying by building simple routines and coping strategies. He also supports clients facing career shifts, redundancy or separation by focusing on immediate steps and clearer choices. For those with attention differences or neurodivergent traits he offers tools to channel strengths into daily life.
He brings experience from a prior career in finance and sustainability, where he led teams and mentored colleagues across the UK, Italy and East Africa. That background informs a practical style that values clear goals and steady progress. Sessions can be short-term or longer-term depending on what the person needs.
Matteo aims to create a space where clients can speak plainly, try new ways of managing problems, and work toward clearer priorities and healthier routines.
Therapeutic techniques for online support
Matteo commonly uses cognitive-based work to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and worry. This involves simple exercises to challenge negative thoughts and build more helpful habits, useful for panic, insomnia and overthinking.He also draws on person-centred and experiential methods such as guided imagery and drawing to help people access feelings and inner images. These techniques can help when words alone feel inadequate, and they often support work with trauma, emptiness or attachment issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Matteo collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adapt the plan as things change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, giving practical options for different situations. Video calls are a close substitute for face-to-face meetings, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, while chat and messaging allow ongoing support between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible around work, family life and travel, and they let people continue therapy even when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Italian
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