About Maria
Maria Howell welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or big life changes. She is known for calm, straightforward support and aims to help people feel heard and less alone. Maria uses simple, practical conversation to work through worries and find steps forward.
Maria has seven years of experience in counselling and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has worked in South Wales within an ethical integrative service that focuses on making counselling accessible.
How Maria works
Her background includes supporting people living with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar experiences, addiction, and neurodiversity such as autism. In sessions she helps clients untangle relationship and intimacy concerns, work through grief and loss, and address issues around body image, eating and sleeping. She also supports people with parenting strain, career stress, anger and self-esteem struggles.
Maria listens for patterns such as abandonment, attachment or control issues and helps clients name what matters most to them. Maria uses an integrative, evidence-informed approach tailored to each person. She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where clients can talk honestly and explore practical choices.
Conversations tend to be collaborative and focused on small, manageable steps that can be tried between sessions. People who value clear, compassionate guidance may find her style helpful. She accepts people from outside the UK for online work and offers a range of remote formats to fit different days and schedules.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Maria uses integrative, evidence-informed techniques that are adapted to the person she is meeting. One common strand is practical problem-focused work that helps people break down worries into smaller steps and try new coping strategies between sessions; this suits issues like anxiety, stress and everyday coping. Another key element is trauma-informed listening, which focuses on safety, pacing and helping people make sense of painful or confusing experiences; this can help with grief, abuse and dissociation.Finding the right way of working is a collaborative process. Maria discusses different methods with each client and adjusts the pace and focus as goals and preferences become clearer. Together they decide which techniques to try and review progress along the way.
Online therapy options include video calls for a conversational session, phone sessions when camera time is difficult, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel, allow for quieter audio-only conversations when bandwidth is low, and provide flexible ways to maintain contact when a full video session is not needed.
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