About Ana-Maria
Ana-Maria Anica is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and major life changes. She holds BACP registration, and brings three years of practical experience to sessions. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and more able to cope.
Ana-Maria uses an integrative approach that blends body-oriented Somatic ideas with mindfulness and client-centred work. In practice that means noticing how feelings show up in the body, slowing down to pay attention, and talking through what comes up.
Background and approach
She uses simple, practical tools so people can try things between sessions. Many clients come because they feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure what to do next. Ana-Maria breaks down problems into small, manageable steps.
She works with career stress, parenting pressures, grief, addiction concerns, eating or sleeping difficulties, and issues around intimacy and self-worth. Sessions are offered in English and Romanian and can be arranged online for people in the United Kingdom and beyond. Ana-Maria accepts international clients and tailors the plan to each person’s situation.
She explains options clearly and helps people decide what feels realistic for them. Her approach combines listening with practical exercises and reflection. People leave sessions with clearer next steps and tools to use at home.
Ana-Maria aims to make therapy feel doable, not overwhelming, so people can move forward at their own pace.
How Ana-Maria’s approaches work online
Ana-Maria draws on Somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. This can mean paying attention to breath, posture or physical sensations and using that awareness to make small changes that reduce distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and identifying personal values to guide change. It is useful for anxiety, stress and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand communication and trust issues and try different ways of relating.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most comfortable. They will adapt exercises to suit your pace and check in about how each method feels, treating the process as a collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy makes it easier to access these methods from home. Sessions can be scheduled as video calls or phone conversations, and shorter exchanges are possible through live chat or text-based messaging. This flexibility helps people work around busy schedules, family life or mobility limits, while still using the same practical tools, body-awareness exercises and reflective conversations they would have in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian