About Me

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

Before training as a counsellor, I spent many years working in higher education and wellbeing support, often alongside people who were navigating uncertainty, pressure, and difficult personal circumstances. Those experiences taught me the importance of listening carefully, particularly when there are no easy answers or clear solutions.

That experience continues to shape how I think about emotional life and the ways people learn to carry difficult things quietly.

Having lived and worked between Greece and Britain, I’m interested in the ways language, culture, and belonging shape how people experience themselves. Feeling connected to more than one place can deepen a sense of perspective, but can also create periods of uncertainty, distance, or feeling slightly outside of things.

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.