Maria Fallon

I have flexible availability, including early morning/late evening and weekend appointments. 

I am warm, empathic, honest and flexible in my work with clients and I will provide a supportive & confidential environment. I will work with you to explore a new and different path. From your initial enquiry through to the completion of your sessions, I will endeavour to make the process as straightforward as possible. Leaving you free to focus on the work.

I am currently only offering online sessions. Zoom gives both the counsellor and client the feeling of being in the same room, without having to travel to an office for the counselling to take place. Appointments are conducted otherwise exactly the same; they last approximately 50 minutes and exactly the same work takes place as would face-to-face.

I am a Psychodynamic counsellor, which means that as well as getting a full understanding of the issues you are currently experiencing, we can also explore early life experiences and relationships to see how they have formed your view of yourself and others.

Psychodynamic theory presumes that we develop our view of ourselves and the world we live in through early experiences and relationships. During counselling, we can unpick these early influences to better understand your emotional response to current issues and situations.​

Through understanding your emotional response to situations, counselling aims to help you better understand yourself, your relationships, make decisions or answer questions that you might have for yourself.

Together, we can then use a number of different methods to implement any changes you might like to make, such as working on your self esteem, coping strategies, managing your stress/anxiety or just generally managing your emotional response to situations. 

Our initial session is a good opportunity to introduce ourselves to each other; I can give you a more detailed overview of how the sessions will work and a bit about myself and my background.

After running through the documents that I send over prior to our sessions, including about confidentiality and limits of the sessions, I can answer any questions you might have. You are then given space and support to give an overview of what has brought you to counselling.

The decision to come to counselling can be an incredibly difficult one to make, often made at a time when life is at its most stressful. I work hard to ensure that the process doesn't feel too overwhelming.