Maria Cascarino, BACP

Maria Cascarino is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist who supports people facing a wide range of emotional and practical challenges. With three years of clinical experience, she works collaboratively to explore unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours that are keeping clients stuck, and she focuses on building practical skills and strategies to manage anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, procrastination and related concerns.

Maria creates a nonjudgmental space where each person’s experience is treated as unique, and she adapts sessions to fit individual needs and goals. Her practice includes work with stress, panic and panic attacks, social anxiety and phobia, body image and self-love issues, as well as workplace and career-related difficulties and women’s issues.

She is registered with the BACP, the professional association for counselling and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom, and draws on evidence-informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to help clients identify patterns, test unhelpful beliefs and develop practical coping tools. Maria welcomes enquiries from people who are ready to begin therapy or who simply want to learn more about the process, and she is open to discussing how therapy might fit each person’s circumstances.

CBT based support and flexible online sessions

Maria primarily works using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - a structured, goal-oriented approach that helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and practice alternative ways of responding. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, stress and problems with self-esteem because it focuses on practical techniques to change thinking and behaviour patterns.

Alongside CBT, Maria emphasises building practical skills and strategies tailored to each person’s situation. This involves collaborative work to develop coping tools, improve emotional regulation and address specific issues such as workplace stress, social anxiety or body image concerns. The therapist and client decide together what methods fit best with the client’s goals and preferences.

Online therapy with Maria offers flexibility in how sessions are delivered - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - which can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations. Registered professionals can adapt these formats to support progress, maintain continuity of care and make it simpler to access regular sessions from home or other convenient locations.