About Maryia
Maryia Farooq helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges with sleep or eating. Maryia works with issues around parenting, self-esteem, anger, career decisions and compassion fatigue.
She is based in the United Kingdom and communicates in English. Maryia brings three years of professional experience to her counselling. She holds BACP registration, which means she follows the professional standards of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
How Maryia works
She sees counselling as a collaborative process and believes the client is the expert in their own life. In sessions she focuses on practical steps and clear goals. Conversations are aimed at understanding patterns that cause distress and trying small changes that can make daily life easier.
She encourages noticing strengths and building on them rather than only focusing on problems. Maryia offers a calm and direct style. She will listen, ask questions that help bring clarity, and suggest ways to cope between meetings.
The aim is to help people manage symptoms and make decisions that fit their values and circumstances. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and commitment issues, caregiver stress, fertility or cancer-related distress, and body image. This range allows her to tailor sessions to the immediate problem and the wider context of a person’s life.
What Maryia works with
The areas below are the ones Maryia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Maryia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on making practical changes and easing distress. One common approach is helping people recognise unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour and then testing small, realistic changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. This way of working is useful for stress, worry, sleep problems and low mood.She also supports work on relationships and attachment by helping people notice how past experiences shape current bonds and communication. Sessions often include practising clearer ways to express needs and boundaries, which can help with commitment, communication and intimacy issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust the plan according to progress, needs and preferences. Clients and therapist set goals and review what helps most over time.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written communication or need flexibility for brief updates between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, caregiving or other commitments.
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