Dr. Maria Luca - Counselling and Psychotherapy - Integrative

Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
67 Middleton Road | Hackney | London | E8 4EE | UK

General Availability

Weekday Daytimes, Weekday Evenings, Weekends

UKCP Reg Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling and Psychotherapy in Dalston, London

Fees: Individuals £70.00 - 50 minutes, Couples £80.00 - 50 minutes, Families £90.00 - 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: brief (ten sessions) long (one to five years).
Languages: English, Greek

I provide Telephone Counselling

Fee: Individuals £65.00

Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of Telephone Counselling: brief (ten sessions) long (one to five years).
Languages: English, Greek

I offer Private Counselling and Psychotherapy Services for these Issues

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Anger, Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bipolar Disorder, Bisexual Issues, Bulimia Nervosa, Bullying, Business Leadership, Cancer, Career Issues, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) (ME), Codependency, Couple Relationships, Cultural Issues, Depression, Disability, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Eating Disorders, Fear, Gambling, Gay Issues, Grief, History of Mental Health Problems, Hysteria, Identity, Impotency, Infertility, Inhibitions, Internet Addiction, Internet Gambling Addiction, Internet Pornography Addiction, Internet Sexual Compulsivity, Lack of Meaning in Life, Loneliness, Loss, Low Self Confidence, Low Self Esteem, Marriage (Marital Relations), Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Mixed Race Issues, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Parenting, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Personality Disorders (PD), Phobias, Physical Illness, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Pregnancy, Psychosexual Issues, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Racial Abuse, Rape, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Sleep Problems, Social Phobia, Stage Fright, Stress, Suicidal Thoughts, Transgender Issues, Trauma, Trichotillomania, Unresolved Issues, Weight Loss, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems

My Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Approach

Integrative Therapy

Gender

Female

Clinical Experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy

I am a UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist. I provide counselling and psychotherapy for the above problems. I have over fourteen years post qualification experience working with a range of symptoms and psychological problems in NHS hospitals and in private practice. I offer a confidential service to individuals and couples in distress. As well as Hackney, sessions can also be provided by appointment at The Inner Circle Therapy Centre, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, London NW1 4NS. Everyone, at some point in their life will experience distress either through loss of an important relationship, a life transition, low self esteem, career change or some deeply buried memories triggered by a current event. A skillful therapist can help you develop understanding, and adopt coping strategies for constructive change in your life. You can learn how to manage your symptoms and problems so that they do not affect the way you function in personal relationships, at work and with friends and relatives. An initial consultation may be just what you need to decide if therapy or counselling is for you.

What to Expect during Counselling and Psychotherapy

I work interpersonally. This means that I engage in dialogue with clients and share my understandings with them explicitly. My model of working is relational and inter-personal integrating psychodynamic, existential and CBT theories about humans.

Following an assessment session where symptoms and problems are evaluated and discussed, I devise a psychological formulation, a process that identifies the list of problems, symptoms, their possible origins and how these affect the client's life.

This helps to recommend the appropriate treatment, either brief, long term one year or several years. If brief, therapy will focus on specific problems identified and agreed between the client and myself. Because I work in collaboration with the client, the understanding is jointly developed and the client has a say in the process.

I use tools and skills such as focusing on a symptom or problem, exposure to a fear as in phobic reactions and exploration of underlying causes. Often people may suffer from migraines, anxiety, fears, depression or low self esteem without knowing what the cause is. Therapy can be emotionally and psychologically painful because it confronts issues people often deny or avoid, hoping they would go away.

For example, some people may be convinced they are ugly or fat when everyone around them believes the opposite to be true. This is described as a problem with self-perception or body dysmorphic disorder, which often has roots in early childhood trauma. Likewise, people who struggle to develop or maintain intimacy and relationships may be doing well in all other aspects of their life, but fear of rejection or abandonment could make them frightened of closeness.

Keeping diaries is another tool I use to help me situate the problem in the client's everyday routine. Therapy is like detective work, gathering together the evidence, the clues and reaching a clear understanding of the problem before this can be treated.

Clinical Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Doctorate Counselling and Psychotherapy - Integrative - Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) 2007

Additional Information

As a psychotherapist my experience consists of work with the types of problems listed earlier. I have helped hundreds of people who thought their problems would be with them the rest of their lives. If a clients commit themselves to confronting their problems it is not beyond reach to achieve positive change.

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Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
67 Middleton Road | Hackney | London | E8 4EE | UK

My Consulting Address is in easy reach of: Canonbury, Shoreditch, Hackney, Hoxton, South Hackney, Homerton, Cambridge Heath, Bethnal Green, Liverpool Street, Old Street, Brick Lane, Islington, Stoke Newington, Angel, Barnsbury, Finsbury, Clapton, Highbury, Spitalfields, Lower Holloway

Nearest Train Stations: Haggerston, Hackney Central, Dalston Junction, London Fields, Dalston Kingsland, Hackney Downs, Hoxton, Cambridge Heath, Canonbury, Essex Road

Nearest London Underground Tube Stations: Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, Old Street, Highbury & Islington, Angel

Wheelchair access: Yes