Maria Pinter
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About me
Anxiety, needing to resolve family issues, feeling low, or experiencing loss are part of everyday life. However, if you feel your emotional life is out of balance and struggle to bounce back from, or feeling stuck in old patterns that hold you back, it's a good time to reach out for support. Psychotherapy helps you to resolve relationship difficulties, recover from depression, addiction, and trauma. It also helps to re-evaluate and make new sense of your life and relationships, not just with others but with yourself too. The process offers opportunities to change your internal life to feeling more comfortable, secure, and confident, and this translates to being able to form more fulfilling relationships and live a fuller life.
My work with couples and pairs seeking to resolve relationship difficulties aims to improve communication and loving connections to each other through identifying negative patterns within the relationship and exploring the roots of problems underlying their difficulties and healing from past traumas.
From the beginning, we focus on establishing trust and a strong sense of safety that enables the exploration of your problems through a deeper understanding of your experiences, thoughts, and feelings. My approach is based on increasing self-awareness and developing skills to manage difficult feelings and heal from old wounds.
It can be hard to seek support, but it might be still easier than just carry on. The most exciting part of my work is seeing my clients developing a better relationship with themselves, recognising their capabilities to live an easier and freer life as they are able to integrate their feelings and actions, which they didn’t think was possible before.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications: MA/Adv Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Diploma in Integrative Counselling, Psychology BSc, Diploma in Higher Education, Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing.
I also work as a supervisor at Cruse Bereavement Charity.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Further information
I work with warmth and compassion to create a safe and stable environment in which you can work through your difficulties. I offer support to heal from trauma, depression, addiction, and other difficulties that are often just too hard to manage on our own. I appreciate the possible impact of bereavement, relationship difficulties and diversity that impacts on our quality of life and I offer a safe space to explore them with honesty and compassion.
My integrated model is centred around understanding relational and historical aspects of our lives and focuses on addressing present issues. My practice builds on attachment theory, neuroscience, and body psychotherapy.
