About Maria
Maria Cox is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has three years of professional experience and supports people dealing with relationship strain, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She creates a calm space where clients can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgement.
Maria draws on several practical approaches in her sessions. She often combines Somatic work with client-centred listening to help people notice how emotions show up in their bodies, and to link those sensations with thoughts and patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills for managing intense emotions. Sessions focus on what a person is experiencing right now. Conversations are straightforward and grounded.
The therapist pays attention to physical responses as well as words, and helps clients practise simple skills between sessions. Maria aims to help people build clearer communication, steadier self-worth, and more manageable ways of coping after difficult experiences. She supports those working through attachment wounds, abandonment fears, codependency, and issues around blended family life.
Sessions are offered in English in the UK. Maria is registered with the BACP - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and brings a practical, compassionate style to her work.
How Maria uses body-aware and practical therapies online
Maria often blends Somatic approaches with attachment-focused and client-centred work. Somatic work helps people tune into bodily sensations linked to emotion, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety and overwhelming feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past bonds shape current reactions. Client-Centred Therapy prioritises the person’s experience and uses empathic listening to build trust and clarity.Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods as work progresses. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what a person needs in the moment.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and the chance to notice facial expression and posture, while phone sessions can feel simpler and more personal at home. Live chat and text messaging let people share updates or ask for short check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still working through relationship, trauma and self-esteem concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English