Maria Levenfiche
Gentle practical support for life’s hard moments
About Maria
Maria Levenfiche helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, depression, addiction and grief. She works with parenting concerns, self-esteem, career pressures and intimacy-related issues. Her approach also covers trauma and abuse, eating and body image struggles, and ADHD.
Maria holds BACP registration and practises in the United Kingdom. Maria uses a straightforward, collaborative style in sessions. She starts by listening to what matters to the person and builds on their strengths.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-focused, and she offers calm guidance when emotions feel overwhelming. Her background spans eight years of professional experience in mental health. During that time she has supported people through separation, blended family pressures and family-of-origin problems.
She also offers help for addiction, domestic violence impacts, fertility and fatherhood concerns. Maria attends to attachment and abandonment wounds alongside communication and control issues. She works with people on commitment worries, coping after loss, and eating or food-related difficulties.
Sessions aim to make daily life more manageable and to restore a sense of choice and direction. Therapy with Maria is practical and paced to each person. She helps people map clear next steps, try different coping strategies, and reflect on what works.
Her goal is to empower people to move toward more stable relationships and a steadier sense of self.
What Maria works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based techniques work online
Maria draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical steps. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method suits stress, anxiety and depression by teaching skills to manage difficult moments.Another approach concentrates on relationships and attachment. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships, improve communication, and repair trust after hurt. This work is useful for intimacy issues, commitment worries and many family tensions.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist and client review needs, goals and preferences and choose or adapt approaches together. That collaborative planning ensures the sessions stay focused on what the person wants to change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to in-person meetings and work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions are simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and allow people to keep continuity of care regardless of location.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
