
Maria Castano Lara
Registered Member MÍø±¬ÃÅ
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07934989765
Therapist - Brighton
Features
- Flexible hours available
Availability
I currently have availability for in-person or online sessions on:
-Thursday: daytime /evening
- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: evenings
-Saturday: daytime
In-person sessions take place in a welcoming, centrally located therapy room in Brighton.
About me and my therapy practice
I am an integrative counsellor and therapeutic coach, which means I draw on both counselling and psychotherapy approaches alongside coaching techniques. This allows me to tailor our work together to your unique needs, goals, and preferences.
Together, we will explore what you’re experiencing in a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space. One where you feel heard, valued, and understood. I work in a culturally sensitive way, with care and awareness of how identity, background, and life experiences shape us.
Practice description
Our sessions are collaborative and led by your needs and intentions. With the aim of supporting you to gain clarity, self-awareness, and meaningful change.
Sessions are tailored to you, your pace, comfort, and preferred ways of working. We can take a creative approach, using writing, visualisations, storyboarding, role play and metaphors. We can also integrate practices like mindfulness, body scans, breathing or grounding techniques to help build your connection to the present moment and to yourself.
In therapeutic coaching, we can focus on life or leadership coaching depending on your goals. This work tends to be more proactive and goal-oriented, with a time-bound structure that’s guided by what you want to achieve, whether personally or professionally.
I offer both short-term and open-ended counselling. We will work together to decide what feels right for you.
My first session
I can offer a free initial consultation, up to 20 minutes via phone or secure video platform. The aim of the call is to see how I might help.
Your first session is a chance for us to get to know each other and further explore what you’d like support with, what you hope to gain from counselling or coaching, and how we might work together.
There’s no pressure to share everything at once, I invite you to go at your own pace, in a way that feels safe for you. I’ll also explain how the process works, answer any questions you may have, and check in about practical things like confidentiality, session format, and scheduling.
Most importantly, it’s a space for you to see how it feels and whether it’s the right fit for you.
What I can help with
ADD / ADHD, Addictions, AIDS/HIV, Anger management, Anxiety, Autism spectrum, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Disability, Health related issues, Identity issues, Leadership coaching, Life coaching, Loss, Menopause, Men's issues, Mood disorder, Neurodiversity, Obsessions, Personal development, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Sensory impairment, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Substance Dependency, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, CBT, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Person centred, Phenomenological, Psychodynamic, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis
Clients I work with
Adults, Older adults, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Time-limited
Languages spoken
English, Spanish