About Matteo
Matteo Oriani uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety and life transitions. He speaks English and Italian and draws on five years of counselling experience to offer short-term and longer-term support. Matteo is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
He focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, tackle negative self-beliefs, and manage stress or burnout.
How Matteo works
Sessions often include mindfulness practices and exercises to help people cope day to day. Matteo also offers support around career change, grief, addictions and relationship difficulties, helping clients set clearer boundaries and make practical decisions. Matteo blends techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches, person-centred work and existential and Gestalt ideas.
He also uses image-based methods influenced by Jungian psychology when this feels useful, such as guided imagery and drawing tasks. These are introduced gently and used alongside talking therapy. Before counselling, Matteo spent more than ten years working in the financial sector and in sustainability across the UK, Italy and East Africa.
That background informs his interest in career and life transitions and in practical problem solving during therapy. Sessions can be video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their routine. He works collaboratively, helping clients set goals and decide which techniques to try together.
What Matteo works with
The areas below are the ones Matteo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Matteo commonly uses cognitive-behavioural ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving; this approach is practical and suits problems like anxiety, worry and low mood. Person-centred work forms the foundation of his sessions, offering listening, reflection and a focus on the client's own pace and priorities. He also draws on image-based techniques influenced by Jungian ideas, such as guided imagery and drawing tasks, to access feelings that can be hard to name.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Matteo will talk through goals and preferences and suggest techniques that match the person's needs. Decisions about methods happen collaboratively, and he adapts tools as the relationship and concerns develop.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging works for ongoing short reflections between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel, and help maintain continuity when plans change.
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