Maria Van Vreden
Experienced BACP counsellor helping with anxiety
About Maria
Maria Van Vreden helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and trauma. She supports those coping with family conflict, worries about self-esteem, and the effects of abuse. Maria speaks English and Spanish and practises from the United Kingdom.
She has ten years of professional experience and is registered with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). Maria keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She focuses on what is happening now and what can be done next.
Background and approach
Conversations look at patterns that cause distress and small changes that reduce pain. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through difficult feelings. Her work covers a wide range of personal challenges.
These include abandonment and attachment concerns, body image and caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation or shame. She also supports people facing divorce and separation, midlife questions, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. Maria adapts to each person’s needs rather than following a single method.
She listens for what matters most and suggests practical tools to manage symptoms and improve coping. That might mean learning new ways to handle intense emotions or practising different ways to communicate with others. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
The format can be chosen to fit a person’s routine. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short questionnaire, and then schedule times that suit them.
What Maria works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Maria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for panic attacks, mood disorders and everyday worry.Another approach concentrates on understanding attachment and relationship patterns. It looks at how early experiences shape current reactions and helps people build more balanced ways of relating to others. This is helpful for abandonment concerns, communication problems and caregiver stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and suggest techniques that fit your needs. You and the therapist decide together what to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing, brief reflection between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
