About Maria
Maria Malone welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure where to start. She offers steady support while helping clients talk through relationship worries, anxiety, grief and difficult life changes. Her approach is practical and compassionate, with an emphasis on small steps that add up to real change.
Maria has 15 years of professional experience working across many mental and physical health concerns. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and uses a range of therapeutic tools to meet each person’s needs.
How Maria works
This means sessions are shaped around what helps the individual most rather than a single method. In practice she helps people name patterns and build clearer ways of coping. That might include exploring past trauma, addressing self-esteem and body image, or finding strategies for stress, addiction or compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with career pressure, intimacy issues and the fallout of major life transitions. Her style is collaborative and warm. She believes people are the experts in their own lives and that therapy works best when it draws on existing strengths.
Sessions focus on practical strategies, understanding unhelpful patterns, and creating achievable steps forward. Maria offers online sessions that fit different needs, including video calls and phone work. She encourages clients to take the first step by reflecting on what they want to change and starting a conversation about goals.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Maria uses a mix of well-established, evidence-based techniques adapted for online work. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing it into more balanced perspectives, which helps with anxiety, depression and stress by giving practical tools for daily life. Another approach centres on trauma-informed listening and stabilisation, helping people make sense of painful experiences and build coping strategies to reduce emotional overwhelm.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit best for their goals and circumstances, adjusting the plan as work progresses and needs change.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you speak face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone work can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexible ways to keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel commitments, and they suit different communication preferences.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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