Maria Rocha, BACP
12 years in practice
Maria Rocha is a counsellor with 12 years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
License and registration
- BACP
- 61398 · expires September 2026
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Maria
Maria Rocha is a counsellor with 12 years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She combines talk-based work with hypnotherapy techniques to help people untangle what feels stuck and regain a clearer sense of self. Maria works in English and Portuguese and accepts international clients, offering a range of session formats to suit different needs.
Her background includes transpersonal and spiritual perspectives. She pays attention to emotions, thoughts, relationships and deeper life meaning.
Background and approach
This helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression or major life changes to find practical ways forward. Maria uses a mix of approaches depending on the person in front of her. That can include cognitive behavioural ideas to change unhelpful patterns, attachment-based thinking for relationship difficulties, and hypnotherapy to access relaxed, focused states.
She aims to locate roots of trouble and work on them gently over time. Sessions are conversational and paced to the individual. People can expect to reflect on recent problems, notice repeated patterns, and practise small changes between sessions.
Maria also supports people coping with addiction, parenting strain, career uncertainty, bereavement and body image concerns. Her style is collaborative and values the client’s beliefs and lived experience. Practical tools are balanced with exploration of meaning and identity.
To begin, clients choose a subscription, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Maria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Maria names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How different approaches are used online
Hypnotherapy involves using guided relaxation and focused attention to help people access calmer mental states and work through issues such as anxiety, habit change and trauma-related stress. In an online session Maria can guide a client through these techniques using audio and visual cues to support concentration.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while identifying what matters most to the person. It is useful for stress, depression and coping with life changes and can be delivered through discussion and simple exercises during video or chat sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and communication. This approach helps people who struggle with trust, commitment issues or repeated relationship conflict by mapping patterns and trying new ways of relating within sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with the client, try methods that fit the person’s goals and adjust over time based on what is helpful. Goals and preferences shape the plan rather than a single method being applied from the start.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are suited to fuller sessions where visual contact helps the work. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, journalling-style exchanges or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to arrange regular work around work, family or travel commitments.
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Questions people ask
What problems does she help with?
Maria works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with grief, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, anger and career issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her sessions combine conversational counselling with focused techniques such as hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural ideas. The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 12 years of professional experience in counselling and related approaches. That experience includes working with a range of emotional and life transition issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese for clients in the UK and abroad.
What session formats are available?
Maria offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These different formats suit check-ins, longer therapy and those who prefer not to use video.
How does pricing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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