Maria Palej
Practical, compassionate counselling for everyday struggles
About Maria
Maria Palej is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She combines practical listening with straightforward guidance to help people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Polish and use a range of conversational approaches to suit each person.
Her background includes work across many helping roles, which shaped a calm, down-to-earth way of working. Maria uses client-centred methods to prioritise what each person brings to the room.
Background and approach
She also draws on psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that feel stuck or repeat over time. In practice she blends mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. Mindfulness helps with anxiety, sleep and feeling overwhelmed by strong emotions.
Solution-focused work supports short-term goals and practical steps when change feels urgent. People come for help with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, and a wide range of mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, career stress, and attention-related difficulties.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so conversations can fit around work and family life. Maria explains what to expect in early sessions so people feel clearer about how therapy would work for them.
What Maria works with
How Maria works
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Approach-focused online counselling that fits your life
Client-centred therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and make decisions that suit them. This approach often helps with anxiety, self-esteem and relationship worries.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm racing thoughts. It can be useful for sleep problems, stress and managing intense emotions by bringing awareness to the present moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Maria will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That might mean prioritising short-term solutions at first, then looking deeper at patterns later on.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so therapy can fit around work and daily life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works for short check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats make therapy more flexible and accessible for people with busy schedules.
| 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English, Polish
