Maria Lawrence
Practical integrative counselling for everyday challenges
About Maria
Maria Lawrence is an integrative counsellor who blends different evidence-based techniques to meet each person's needs. She aims to build a simple, practical plan with clients to tackle stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. Maria works in English and practices from the United Kingdom, bringing four years of professional experience to her work.
She helps people facing depression, trauma and addiction by breaking problems into manageable steps. Parenting strains, anger, grief and intimacy concerns are common topics she discusses in sessions.
Background and approach
Maria also supports those coping with bipolar challenges, ADHD symptoms, sleep or eating struggles and career-related stress. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on spotting patterns that keep problems going and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
She listens without judgement and encourages practical strategies alongside emotional reflection. For someone dealing with life changes or compassion fatigue, Maria offers pacing and straightforward tools to reduce overwhelm. When work, family or health issues feel heavy, she helps clients set clear goals and track small signs of progress.
The method adapts as needs shift. People can expect a respectful, calm space to talk through worries and plan next steps. Maria aims to help people feel more able to manage difficult thoughts and feelings and to move toward a steadier everyday routine.
What Maria works with
Sessions & fees
How integrative approaches work online
Maria offers integrative, evidence-based techniques adapted for remote work. One common strand is cognitive-based work that helps spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with small experiments. This suits anxiety, low mood and stress by teaching clearer ways to respond to upsetting thoughts.Another strand focuses on practical coping strategies and behavioural change. That involves breaking big problems into small steps, setting achievable goals and tracking progress. It is helpful for sleep and eating difficulties, addiction-related behaviours and day-to-day routines that need adjusting.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan as needs change. Collaboration helps ensure the work feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break and take less bandwidth, and messaging suits brief check-ins or reflective writing between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work and family commitments and to continue work when life is busy.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
