Counsellor profile
Maria Barletta, BACP
Based in United Kingdom · 4 years of experience
BACP-registered counsellor working with relationship and anxiety issues
Continue with MariaAt a glance
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom (385584)
- Qualifications
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Based in
- United Kingdom
Details come from information Maria supplied to BetterHelp.
- Relationship problems
- Anxiety and panic
- Client-centred methods
About Maria
BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) member. Four years' experience as a counsellor in the United Kingdom. Maria Barletta helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She works with attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, panic attacks and other related concerns using approaches named in her profile.
Maria uses a blend of client-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural approaches in her work. She also draws on existential and solution-focused ideas when relevant. In sessions she may use guided meditations, visualisations and psycho-imaginative techniques to help people clarify problems and try different ways of coping.
Her first session focuses on understanding what brought someone to counselling and on agreeing practical goals. Maria describes her practice as integrative - choosing methods that fit the person and the difficulty rather than offering a single fixed model. She aims to help people identify patterns that maintain distress and to test new responses in day-to-day life.
Sessions are presented as collaborative conversations rather than lectures. Maria uses short exercises and reflective discussion to work on issues such as communication, boundaries, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, and problems at work. She also addresses relationship concerns like jealousy, infidelity and difficulty forming lasting commitments.
Maria is bilingual in English and Spanish and works within the UK. The profile notes experience with life changes, career decisions and multicultural concerns alongside clinical issues such as panic disorder and trauma-related problems.
How her therapeutic approaches work in online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without directing them. It is useful for building clarity about values, relationships and self-esteem and for people who want reflective, person-led discussion.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works with thoughts, feelings and actions. It breaks larger problems into practical steps and uses short exercises to test new ways of reacting to anxiety, panic attacks or low mood.
Existential Therapy addresses questions about meaning, choice and life purpose. It helps people facing big life changes, feelings of emptiness or dilemmas about direction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maria will help identify which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences and will adapt techniques as sessions progress. This is a collaborative process where goals and methods are reviewed together.
Confirm the exact session formats offered before booking, as the profile does not list specific formats. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed and reduce travel time. It also means people can choose formats that suit quieter surroundings or lower-bandwidth connections when those options are available.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Her areas include stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression, plus related issues such as panic attacks and codependency.
What style of counselling does she use?
She uses an integrative approach combining client-centred work, psychodynamic ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques, with occasional guided meditations and visualisation exercises.
How much experience does she have?
Maria has four years' experience as a counsellor working in the United Kingdom.
Is she a member of any professional body and where does she practise?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be carried out in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin counselling with her?
Select the See online counselling options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Checking a registration
Professional bodies keep public registers. If Maria lists a membership, you can look it up on that body's own website:
Online counselling is not emergency or medical care. In immediate danger? Crisis numbers