Maria Polverino
Experienced counsellor for stress and relationships
About Maria
Maria Polverino helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain and trauma. She works with problems like addictions, grief, sleep difficulties, parenting strain and intimacy concerns. Maria also supports issues linked to identity, such as LGBT-related worries, and complex mood conditions like bipolar disorder.
Maria uses a straightforward, person-focused style in sessions. She treats clients as the expert on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify small, practical steps that feel manageable between meetings. Her training is recognised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Maria has six years of experience working with a range of emotional and interpersonal problems.
She offers help to people navigating life changes, loss, or the aftermath of abuse. In therapy she draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques to spot thought patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-focused thinking to make sense of relationship patterns.
Emotionally-focused and client-centred ways of working help keep sessions warm and focused on what matters to the client. Maria runs sessions online and by phone, and she accepts international clients who can connect from other countries. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and arranging times that fit the client's schedule.
The emphasis is on practical support that fits everyday life.
What Maria works with
How Maria works
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Sessions & fees
How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what truly matters to them and take committed actions, even when difficult feelings are present. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people make different choices in close relationships.Maria also uses client-centred ways of working, which means sessions are led by the client's concerns and paced to their comfort. She will discuss these approaches with each person and together they will choose what fits best. Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process and is decided collaboratively based on needs and goals.
Online therapy with Maria is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets you see facial cues and body language, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for shorter check-ins, and messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while still accessing consistent support.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
