About Maitena
Maitena Anda is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings 12 years of professional experience to her work. She meets people with respect and sensitivity and aims to build a calm, steady space to talk.
Maitena often helps people facing stress and anxiety. She also supports those managing depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She has experience with LGBT issues and relationship and family difficulties, and works with parents around parenting and fatherhood issues.
How Maitena works
Her wider focus includes abandonment and attachment issues, body image, codependency, dissociation and blended family challenges. She also offers support for people with autism and Asperger Syndrome and for those coping with caregiver strain. Maitena adapts her approach to fit the person in front of her rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
In sessions she draws on attachment-based ways of thinking alongside client-centred listening. She brings elements of mindfulness, Jungian ideas and existential thinking when these suit a person’s needs. Conversations aim to make feelings clearer and create small, workable changes between sessions.
Maitena offers sessions in English and Spanish. She accepts people from outside the UK and provides a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the available times.
Maitena lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Maitena works with
The areas below are the ones Maitena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches online and what they offer
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people see how past connections shape current responses and aims to create steadier ways to relate to others and to oneself.Client-centred therapy means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person's lead. This approach is useful when someone needs to be heard, understood and helped to find their own solutions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences and together decide what to try first. That plan can change as therapy continues so it fits lived experience and what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people see non-verbal cues, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, and live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it simpler to arrange therapy around everyday life and to maintain regular contact with a registered or accredited professional.
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