About Me

I’m Maria Manifava, a person-centred counsellor based in Manchester, offering online counselling across the UK.

I offer a calm and steady space where you can talk openly about what is going on, without needing to have it fully worked out.

Before training as a counsellor, I spent many years working in higher education and wellbeing support, where I worked with people managing pressure, responsibility and uncertainty, often while carrying things on their own.

In my counselling practice I work particularly with anxiety and with the experience of not quite feeling at home in yourself, in your role, or in the place you find yourself living.

Many of the people I work with are balancing demanding responsibilities while also carrying a quieter sense of difference or displacement. This can include people who have moved countries, live between cultures, or feel caught between different expectations.

Having lived and worked between Greece and Britain, I understand how language, culture and a sense of belonging can shape how you see yourself and where you feel you fit.

I offer counselling in both English and Greek.

If you’d like to know more about how I work, you can find that on the How I Work page.