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Ana-Maria Anica, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Romanian
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefSelf esteem
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Ana-Maria Anica is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Ana-Maria focuses on creating a warm, calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Ana-Maria uses an integrative style that borrows from different approaches. She often blends acceptance and commitment ideas with attachment-focused work and client-centred listening. Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps rather than jargon or abstract theory.
Background and approach
People come to her for many reasons, including anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and problems with sleep or eating. She also supports concerns such as addiction, ADHD, burnout and the effects of trauma and abuse. Ana-Maria works alongside clients to untangle patterns and build practical coping tools.
Her way of working is conversational and paced to each person. She listens first, then helps set small goals and practices that fit everyday life. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are used where helpful to strengthen decision-making and emotional balance.
Ana-Maria also speaks Romanian in addition to English, which can help people who prefer to express themselves in that language. She welcomes international clients and offers sessions using a variety of online formats to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ana-Maria commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centred listening. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values, accepting difficult thoughts, and taking committed action to live a meaningful life; it is often helpful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses, and it can help with intimacy, abandonment feelings and repeated relational cycles. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises being heard and understood, offering a supportive space to explore concerns at your own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana-Maria will discuss your needs and goals and suggest techniques that match your preferences. The process is collaborative and adjustments are made as you progress so the methods used feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy with her is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, brief reflections or flexible contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family duties and travel.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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