Maria Mina, NCPS

Beginning therapy can feel daunting, and Maria Mina focuses on making that first step more approachable by creating a calm and supportive environment where people can begin to address the barriers that stop them from living a meaningful, authentic life.

Counselling with Maria offers space to speak openly and reflect on what is holding someone back, to plan practical change and to move forward with clearer direction. Her style is supportive, non-judgmental and honest, aimed at helping clients work out what they want and what they need to reach their therapy goals.

Maria is a qualified and experienced integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, which means she blends different therapeutic methods and adapts her approach to each person’s individual needs. She holds the NCPS credential, a professional counselling qualification that reflects her training and membership within professional networks.

Alongside a private practice, Maria is an approved therapist with Anxiety UK and volunteers with the mental health charity Mind. Before training as a therapist she spent many years in the public and not-for-profit sectors as a human resources director, concentrating on building cultures that were inclusive, caring, supportive and fair. She also maintains an NCS profile.

Maria works with a wide range of concerns including depression and low mood, stress and anxiety, work-life balance and work-related issues, relationship and family difficulties, separation and divorce, low confidence and self-esteem, anger and irritability, grief and loss, redundancy and job transitions, parenting and intimacy-related issues, coaching and self-development, coping with life changes, long covid, imposter syndrome, loneliness and isolation, feeling stuck or overwhelmed, weight management, and compassion fatigue.