About Maria
Maria Barletta specialises in stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She greets people in a warm, straightforward way and offers practical support for everyday problems. Maria works in English and Spanish and is based in the United Kingdom.
Maria is a BACP member, which means she is registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has four years of professional experience supporting people through painful break-ups, communication problems, panic attacks, work stress and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
How Maria works
Her work also attends to attachment concerns, codependency, infidelity and multicultural issues. Her sessions combine a few well-established approaches. She uses client-centred methods to focus on what matters to each person.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and build different responses. She also draws on psychodynamic and existential ideas when exploring deeper patterns and life purpose. Maria aims to understand a person's goals before making a plan.
In practice that means listening carefully, asking simple questions and agreeing small steps to try between sessions. She sometimes offers guided visualisations and reflective exercises to help people notice how they react and develop new choices. Sessions can be practical and goal-focused, or slower and exploratory depending on what someone needs.
Maria supports people who want clearer boundaries, better communication, relief from panic or more direction in life. She encourages steady change through clear, manageable work.
Maria lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Maria works with
The areas below are the ones Maria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Maria's approaches work online
Client-centred work puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people set goals that feel relevant to their life. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support and clearer direction.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different ways of thinking and acting. It is practical and useful for anxiety, panic attacks, low mood and everyday stress. Exercises and short tasks between sessions help people try new responses and notice changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maria will work with each person to decide whether a more practical CBT focus, a client-centred supportive way, or deeper psychodynamic or existential reflection is best. She adapts methods as goals and preferences become clearer over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls recreate the face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier if being on camera feels difficult, while live chat or text messaging lets people check in quickly or fit a short session into a break at work. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try different formats as needs change.
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