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Maria Alessandra Galusso Vayra


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Maria Alessandra Galusso Vayra

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My Approach

As an integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist, I offer therapeutic support to children, adolescents, young adults and their families. I provide one-to-one, parent-child and parent only sessions within a welcoming empathic space. In my work with children and young people, I tend to work collaboratively with parents and carers in order to bring about a holistic understanding of the young person's unique needs. My aim is to provide a supportive space to explore existing strengths in the individual and the family that will promote empathy and build resilience whilst maintaining a trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming and culturally sensitive perspective.

Integrative psychotherapy provides a relational evidence based framework to help children and young people who might be experiencing emotional, social and/or behavioural difficulties by integrating complementary psychotherapeutic approaches. My theoretical framework comprises psychodynamic thinking, attachment theory and affective neuroscience with the optional use of the arts to facilitate expression and exploration of difficulties. I also offer DBT ( Dialectical Behaviour Therapy).


I also work alongside other professionals ( GPs, psychiatrists, family therapists, specialist mental health nurses, etc ) which might be involved in the young person's life to promote understanding of the child's emotional needs and contribute to a multi-disciplinary approach to the child's difficulties.

About Me

I am a fully qualified integrative child psychotherapist with over 10 years' experience offering therapeutic support to children, young people, young adults and their families. With a background in teaching English as a second language, I trained at the Institute of Arts in Therapy and Education receiving a MA ( through UEL ) in 2019. Since then, I have worked continuously in different settings; schools, NGOs and lately my focus has been on private practice.

I work with

  • Children and young people
  • Groups
  • Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Integrative Child Psychotherapist

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy
  • Telephone Therapy

UKCP College

  • College for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapies (CCAP)

Working with Children

For more information about therapy for children and young people, visit our info page.
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