Maria Staniloiu

About me

I am an open, understanding, present person with a great desire to stimulate the healthy side of the clients I work with. I have a theoretical understanding of the therapeutic process as well as a practical and personal understanding resulting from my own therapy. I treat the therapeutic relationship with devotion and respect, with professionalism while keeping alive the human connection. Treating the symptom is something I have in mind, but I find the symptom oriented approach as limiting. In my approach, the symptom is just the outside manifestation of something that happens within the person’s emotional schema. That’s why I am curious to get to know the person behind the symptom. Support, unconditional acceptance and guidance are some of the key elements offered in therapy. The therapeutic approach I use is called Emotion Focused Therapy – EFT (which is different from emotional freedom technique). EFT is a humanistic-experiential, integrative approach (with elements of person-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, existential therapy, current psychological theories related to emotion, cognition, attachment and psychodynamics), which has empirical / evidence-based support. I'm currently training in Compassionate Inquiry by and with Gabor Maté. LGBTQIA+ affirmative Trauma informed English therapy sessions in-person or online