Maria Rocha
Compassionate counsellor for practical emotional change
About Maria
Maria Rocha is a counsellor with 12 years of experience who works from a human-centred perspective. She holds BACP registration, speaks English and Portuguese, and is based in the United Kingdom. Maria writes simply and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship difficulties, parenting strain and work-related concerns.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include self-esteem, anger, life changes and issues like abandonment and attachment problems. Maria blends practical talking therapy with reflective work. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values and take small, manageable steps forward.
Sessions aim to make problems easier to understand and to find ways to cope in everyday life. Her approach is collaborative. She pays attention to what a person already brings and adapts ideas to fit individual goals.
Conversations cover emotions, behaviour and the patterns that keep problems going, and they can include exploring meaning and purpose when that feels important. People can expect clear, straightforward conversation rather than jargon. Maria offers support in English and Portuguese and accepts clients who live outside the UK.
Practical arrangements like session length and format are agreed at the start so therapy fits day-to-day life.
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.
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and low mood where a person wants clearer direction and small steps forward.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways and supports changes in how they relate to others and to themselves, particularly around trust and closeness.
Maria treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. She will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and try methods that suit their situation. The aim is to find what feels most helpful, adjusting the way sessions are run as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on steady, workable change.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
