About Maria
Maria Cox is a counsellor who helps people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She has three years of UK practice and works in straightforward, calm language. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support rather than jargon.
Maria aims to make starting therapy less daunting for worried parents or carers. Maria creates a welcoming space where people can talk through painful memories and current stresses.
Background and approach
She listens first and helps clients name what matters most to them. Together they set small, achievable goals and check progress each week. Her work draws on approaches that look at how past relationships shape today’s feelings.
She uses exercises and conversations to shift unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills. Practical tools are mixed with a chance to tell and reframe difficult experiences. Maria pays attention to attachment and communication problems that often underlie repeated conflicts.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, dissociation, body image and caregiving stress. If someone feels stuck by codependency, control issues or emptiness, she helps them find clearer boundaries and steadier self-view. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Maria follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy framework and works with each person at their own pace.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships influence present feelings and reactions. Online sessions let clients talk through these patterns and practise new ways of relating in conversations with a therapist. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can explore their own solutions; this approach suits people who need patience and space to find their voice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses straightforward exercises to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and can be useful for anxiety, low mood and phobias.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try a method for a few sessions and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are invited to feed back so the work stays practical and relevant to their day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and exercises, phone sessions fit shorter check-ins and lower bandwidth situations, while live chat and text messaging suit brief reflections or when written responses feel easier. These options help people access consistent support without travel and with timing that suits family or work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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