Maria Barletta
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Maria
Maria Barletta helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and low mood. She is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English and Spanish. Her style is warm and practical, focused on understanding what is causing pain and finding steps forward.
Maria uses a mix of approaches so conversations stay relevant to each person. She listens with a client-centred stance and draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses psychodynamic and existential ideas to look at deeper motivations and life meaning when that is useful. Sessions begin by clarifying goals and priorities. Maria prefers to build a simple plan together rather than push a one-size-fits-all method.
She sometimes offers guided meditations, visualisations and imagery exercises to help people notice feelings and try new ways of coping. Her work addresses a wide range of relationship issues such as communication problems, jealousy, infidelity and recovery from break-ups. She also supports people with panic attacks, social anxiety, low self-esteem, codependency and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Maria draws on four years of professional experience helping adults navigate life changes, career stress, family problems and multicultural concerns. She focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions as well as reflections that clarify long-standing patterns. People who choose to work with her can expect conversational sessions that balance immediate coping skills with exploration of deeper issues.
She invites clients to set the pace and shape the goals they want to work on.
What Maria works with
How Maria works
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Sessions & fees
How Maria’s approaches work online
Maria uses client-centred work to make sessions feel collaborative and focused on the person’s priorities. This approach means the counsellor follows your lead, reflects what matters to you and helps you decide what to work on next. It is useful when someone needs empathetic listening and clarity about immediate goals.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going. CBT gives simple tools and exercises to try between sessions, which can help with anxiety, panic attacks and low mood. These techniques translate well to online formats because they often involve homework and short skills practice.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work with clients to decide which approaches suit their needs, goals and preferences. That choice is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and are handy for quick check-ins. Live chat or messaging can work for brief updates, reflective exercises or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
