Maitena Anda
Compassionate counsellor for relationship and identity concerns
About Maitena
Maitena Anda is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has 12 years of professional experience offering support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Maitena also works with clients on issues related to LGBT identity, grief, trauma and intimacy concerns.
She aims for a respectful, sensitive and compassionate way of working. Conversations are adapted to each person's needs so the pace and focus feel manageable.
Background and approach
Maitena explains things plainly and helps people name what feels most pressing in day-to-day life. Her approach draws on attachment ideas and client-centred practice to help people feel heard and understood. She also brings existential and Jungian perspectives when clients are wrestling with meaning, identity or recurrent patterns.
Mindfulness techniques are used to calm the body and ground attention in the present. Maitena commonly helps people untangle family-of-origin issues, navigate separation or blended family stress, and address struggles around self-esteem, abandonment or codependency. Work may include exploring past losses, shifting unhelpful patterns, and trying practical steps between sessions.
Sessions are available in English and Spanish and can be arranged online for people living in the United Kingdom and abroad. Maitena encourages small first steps and works collaboratively to set realistic goals for change.
What Maitena works with
How Maitena works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current expectations. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre of the room. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client's lead, helping them to clarify feelings and make their own choices about next steps. This approach is helpful for building self-trust and working through low self-esteem or identity questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together what methods fit the client's goals, needs and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying techniques from different traditions and adjusting as things evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video lets people see facial expressions and tone, phone needs less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, while chat and messaging can serve for quick check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to arrange regular sessions around work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
