About Mariya
Mariya Henderson helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns. She supports those facing parenting pressures, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges such as low self-esteem, body image worries and loneliness. Mariya also works with issues around intimacy, eating and bipolar disorder, and helps people cope with big life changes.
She uses a person-centred style in sessions, which means conversations focus on the person's own experience and goals.
How Mariya works
Mariya listens with respect and adapts each session to what the person needs that day. She also draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques when these fit the situation. Across nine years of practice Mariya has developed a steady, calm approach.
She aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about painful topics like abandonment, family of origin problems, immigration stress and guilt or shame. Sessions are practical and down to earth, with attention to how patterns in relationships and thinking affect daily life. Mariya works in English and Russian, and sees people who are connecting from other countries as well.
Her background includes work supporting people with fatherhood issues, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and forgiveness work. People who choose to work with Mariya can expect clear, respectful conversations and help making small, manageable changes. She invites clients to set the pace and shape the goals, and she adjusts methods as needs change.
Mariya lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Mariya works with
The areas below are the ones Mariya 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of connecting with others shape feelings and behaviour now. It helps when relationship patterns, abandonment or attachment wounds make it hard to trust or feel supported with others. The person-centred approach places the client's experience at the centre of each session. It focuses on listening, acceptance and helping the individual set their own goals and pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, examines the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and introduces practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; this can help with anxiety, low mood and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to identify which methods feel most useful. That means trying things out, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan based on the client's needs, goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers different formats to suit everyday life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when seeing body language and tone matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions possible. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside work, family or study commitments.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with MariyaWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
How would she work with me in sessions?
What is her professional background?
Where does she practise and what accreditation does she hold?
Can I work with her if I don't live in the UK?
What session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
How do I begin therapy with her?
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.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions