Ana-Maria Anica , BACP

Ana-Maria Anica is a BACP-registered counsellor who draws on an integrative approach to help people through stressful life moments. She works with common issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship struggles and low self-esteem. Her manner is calm and straightforward, and she focuses on practical ways to make small changes that add up over time.

Clients often come when they feel stuck or overwhelmed by patterns that keep repeating. Ana-Maria helps break those patterns down into manageable steps. She uses everyday language and offers tools people can use between sessions to cope and move forward.

Her background emphasises person-centred listening combined with mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques. This mix lets people explore feelings while also building skills to manage them. Sessions aim to balance immediate coping strategies with work on longer-term patterns.

Ana-Maria works with relationship concerns, grief and trauma, addictions, body image and parenting-related stress among other areas. She also supports people dealing with career problems, compassion fatigue, ADHD and major life changes. Her additional focus includes attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and recovery from domestic violence or substance problems.

She offers sessions in English and Romanian for people based in the United Kingdom and for international clients. The initial step is to choose a plan, complete a short matching questionnaire, and arrange sessions that suit each person’s schedule.

Approaches that fit online therapy

Ana-Maria commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside person-centred work to shape online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, then commit to actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns, helping people understand intimacy, trust and communication challenges in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana-Maria will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will choose methods that match what you want to change. This collaborative process means techniques may shift over time as new issues emerge or progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you read facial expression and body language for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit into a short break at work, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to keep momentum and access therapy from different locations and schedules.