About Maria
Maria Levenfiche helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family problems, trauma and abuse, and depression. She also supports those dealing with addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career worries and ADHD. Maria is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, bringing eight years of practice experience to her work.
Maria works in a straightforward, respectful way. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
How Maria works
Sessions are practical and focused on what matters most to the client right now. Maria aims to make the process feel manageable and clear for people who are worried or unsure where to begin. Her approach is tailored to the issue at hand.
She helps people think through communication and commitment concerns, attachment and abandonment worries, blended family dynamics and fatherhood questions. She also offers support around fertility, body image and eating-related struggles, and helps people navigating divorce or separation. Maria draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address complex problems such as domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, and family of origin issues.
She pays attention to control and communication patterns that keep problems repeating. The work often includes learning small practical skills and trying new ways of handling conflict. Sessions can be arranged to fit different schedules and locations.
Maria aims to support people who are ready to take steps towards change and to offer steady, non-judgemental help as they do so.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How evidence-informed approaches work online
Many of Maria's clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and then try small experiments to change them; this can reduce anxiety and low mood by breaking cycles that feed distress. Another useful method centres on attachment and communication - it looks at how past relationships shape current worries and teaches clearer ways to express needs and boundaries, which helps with relationship and family concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Maria will discuss different techniques and decide with each person what fits their goals and preferences. That means trying things out and adjusting the plan as progress is made, with the client's priorities guiding the choices.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when it helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to book sessions around work, family or other commitments and to keep continuity of care when circumstances change.
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