Maria Rocha, BACP

Maria Rocha is a counsellor with 12 years of clinical experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She combines talking therapies with hypnotherapy methods and aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward.

Her style is warm and exploratory. Sessions look at current struggles and the life events that may have led to them. She encourages clear, honest conversation and practical steps that people can try between meetings.

Maria draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centred work and Existential approaches alongside hypnotherapy techniques. This mix is used to help people identify patterns, manage distressing thoughts, and reconnect with what matters to them.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, grief and relationship issues. Additional focuses listed include abandonment, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, codependency and divorce and separation.

Maria also supports people facing life transitions such as ageing, career changes or parenting challenges. Her approach aims to trace painful patterns back to their roots, heal where needed, and strengthen a person's sense of identity so they can make choices aligned with their values.

How Maria’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and for rebuilding life after big changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It can help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety by changing patterns of thinking and behaviour.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and practical needs, and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process helps shape each plan as therapy progresses.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around busy days, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full hour is not possible. It also allows people to access a therapist who speaks their language or who has specific experience, regardless of location. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises for remote sessions, using guided reflection and simple homework to keep progress moving between meetings.