Hello, I am Mariana, a fully trained existential psychotherapist working with adults.
I came to this work through a genuine interest in people and relationships. Much of how
we come to understand ourselves and the shifting world around us happens through
encounters with other people.
This is rarely simple. The ways we have learnt to meet ourselves and others can keep us
close to familiar ways of being, even when they no longer feel helpful, and can make it
harder to move in the direction we want.
Existential psychotherapy is concerned with how you live your life within the context of
your past experiences and current circumstances. It pays attention to agency, meaning,
and the realities you are living within, and to what begins to open up when things are met
differently.
The way I work
I believe that in therapy, you have the opportunity to get in touch with what feels unfamiliar
or uncertain, and with what needs clarity and space to be (re)discovered.
From this position, I work in a non-pathologising way. I am interested in the particular ways
you see and engage with the world, rather than reducing your experience to symptoms
and labels. Together, we bring awareness to the assumptions through which you
understand yourself, your choices, and the realities you are living within.
In the room, I work with thoughts, feelings, emotions, and bodily experience as part of the
same conversation. I pay attention to how experience is felt as well as thought, and how
meaning emerges through both.
I work inclusively with people across gender, sexuality, and cultural background, and with
an awareness of the wider contexts that shape how we live and relate. I favour long-term
weekly work. Sessions last 50 minutes.
You do not need to arrive with clarity. We start where you are.
Mariana works in our Peckham and London Fields locations. She also offers online therapy.
