Maria Konstantinelli

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MA,MBACP, MNCPS(Acc.). Trainee Psychosexual Therapist

About me

I am a UK-licensed integrative therapist with over ten years of professional experience supporting individuals, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds and across the lifespan. I offer counselling in both English and Greek, with sensitivity to the importance of culture, identity, attachment, and emotional meaning within the therapeutic relationship.

My work is informed by additional psychodynamic psychotherapy training, which allows me to explore with clients the deeper emotional patterns, unconscious processes, relational dynamics, and early attachment experiences that may shape present difficulties. Alongside this, extra training in couples therapy enables me to work thoughtfully with relationship distress, communication difficulties, intimacy issues, conflict, betrayal, and emotional disconnection. I understand that relationships can hold both profound vulnerability and healing potential, and I aim to create a space where both partners feel heard, understood, and emotionally safe.

I also bring specialist psychosexual therapy training into my practice, supporting individuals and couples to explore intimate and sexual concerns within a warm, confidential, and non-judgemental environment. I recognise that conversations around sexuality can evoke feelings of shame, embarrassment, frustration, grief, or hopelessness, particularly when difficulties impact identity, self-esteem, or relationships.

There is a wide range of psychosexual and relational difficulties, including:

low or loss of sexual desire
arousal difficulties
erectile difficulties
premature or delayed ejaculation
difficulties reaching orgasm
pain during sex
vaginismus
genito-pelvic pain
performance anxiety
mismatched desire within relationships
intimacy and communication difficulties
the impact of sexual trauma

I also support clients exploring questions around sexual identity, changes in sexuality, and shifts in intimacy following significant life experiences such as menopause, pregnancy, postnatal recovery, illness, disability, ageing, relationship transitions, or the effects of medication.

Throughout my career, I have worked extensively with neurodivergent individuals, recognising the unique challenges that can arise when navigating a society often shaped by neurotypical expectations. My approach is grounded in empathy, advocacy, curiosity, and tailored support that empowers clients to better understand themselves and thrive on their own terms.

My clinical experience also includes supporting clients with stress, acute anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, low self-esteem, emotional dysregulation, motivational difficulties, relational struggles, and attachment wounds. I have also worked with clients experiencing suicidal ideation and deeply entrenched emotional pain, understanding these experiences not simply as symptoms to eliminate, but as meaningful responses to overwhelming emotional experiences that deserve compassion, containment, and careful exploration.

I believe that each person is the expert of their own story. At times, our strengths can become obscured by trauma, loss, shame, or painful relational experiences, yet they remain present and accessible. Trauma can fragment our sense of self, disrupt development, and shape how we relate to ourselves and others. Through a therapeutic relationship grounded in safety, curiosity, and authenticity, healing and transformation become possible.

I believe that when fear and emotional pain remain unspoken, they can become isolating and destructive. However, within a compassionate therapeutic relationship, healing is not only possible — it can be deeply empowering and transformative.

Training, qualifications & experience

  • PgDip in Psychosexual Therapy at Tavistock. Oct 2024- Currently
  • Level 5 in Relationship counselling in Counselling. 2025
  • Bachelor's in Psychology with Counselling. 2025  
  • Post graduate certificate in Systemic Therapy
    Tavistock. September 2020
  • Master's in Psychodynamic Counselling in Psychodynamic Counselling
    Essex University - Essex. 2018
  • Level 4 Certificate in Counselling children and Adolescents
    Place2Be - London. 2017
  • Diploma of Higher Education in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
    CPTA - Royal Tunbridge Wells.  2016
  • Level 2 in Foundation course in Awareness in Bereavement Care
    Cruse - Maidstone. November2014
  • Level 3 in Counselling Studies
    CPTA - Royal Tunbridge Wells. February 2014
  • Level 2 in Counselling Skills
    CPTA - Royal Tunbridge Wells. August 2013

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NCPS
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BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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Accredited register membership

National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society
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Areas of counselling I deal with

Therapies offered

Fees

£65.00 per session

Additional information

I charge £65 for individual session for 50 minutes, offering 30minutes initial call free of charge.

£120 for couples therapy for 1hr. Offering 30 minutes initial call free of charge-

£90 for Psychosexual therapy for Individuals as Trainee Psychosexual Therapist.

Please NOTE that online appointments are not available to to children under 16

When I work

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Further information

  • I am currently in my final year of my Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy at Tavistock. I am entitled in seeing clients with psychosexual issues with reduced fee.

Room 6, 60 Churchill Square, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4YU

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Children (0-12)
Young people (13-17)
Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)
Couples

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Additional languages

Greek

Online platforms

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