Maria Malone
Practical, compassionate therapy for everyday struggles
About Maria
Maria Malone works with people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward. She offers steady, practical support for everyday struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress and relationship or parenting concerns. Maria writes plainly and listens carefully so people can talk through what matters most to them.
Maria holds BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy registration. She has 15 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and draws on a broad range of approaches to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and simple steps people can try between meetings. Her approach is collaborative and compassionate. Maria helps people identify habits and thoughts that get in the way, and she works with them to try new ways of coping.
Conversations are practical and grounded, with attention to both feelings and day-to-day routines. Maria has particular experience addressing trauma and abuse, addiction and stress, and issues that affect identity and intimacy. She also supports people dealing with grief, chronic illness, parenting strain and career-related pressure.
Where relevant, she pays attention to attachment and early losses such as abandonment, adoption or foster care experiences. People who choose Maria can expect a calm, respectful space to make sense of difficult experiences. She aims to help people spot strengths they already have and to build small, manageable changes that lead to clearer thinking and steadier coping.
Getting started involves an initial matching process and then scheduling sessions that suit the person. Maria accepts international clients and offers a range of online formats to fit different lifestyles.
What Maria works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Maria draws from well established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce distress and build more balanced thinking. This can help with anxiety, low mood and self-esteem difficulties.Another approach she uses looks at patterns in relationships and attachment from early life to now. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways and offers different strategies for relating more safely and clearly with others, which is useful for intimacy and attachment concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Maria will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging works for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, while still keeping momentum on agreed goals.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
