Marita Lashko, BACP

Marita Lashko is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 13 years of experience. She has worked in general practice, a low-cost charity, private practice and in schools, bringing a calm, down-to-earth presence to each conversation. Marita aims to make it easier to talk about painful or confusing feelings.

Her background includes helping people cope with anxiety, grief and loss, depression, trauma, low self-esteem and self-harm. She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, anger and career or life changes. That practical experience shapes how she plans sessions and sets realistic goals.

Marita uses an integrative style with a strong person-centred foundation. She draws on solution-focused ideas to set clear steps, psychodynamic thinking to notice repeating patterns, and trauma-focused methods when past hurts affect daily life. She also uses mindfulness and simple psychoeducation to explain how the mind and body interact.

Sessions are conducted with warmth and respect. Conversations aim to create space to reflect, notice unhelpful patterns and practise small changes. Time is taken to agree achievable goals and to plan practical next steps.

Marita describes her work as compassionate and non-judgemental. She emphasises steady progress rather than quick fixes, and supports people who want to understand themselves better and find clearer ways forward.

How Marita’s approaches work online

Marita draws on client-centred work to place the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. That means the conversation follows what matters to the client, with the counsellor offering empathy and gentle reflection to help people feel heard and make sense of feelings.

She also uses trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause distress. In practice this can mean pacing conversations carefully, offering grounding ideas and helping people notice how past experiences shape current reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose which methods fit best, based on the person’s needs, goals and preferences. Plans can change as progress is made and new priorities appear.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be less demanding on bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, and to choose the way of talking that feels most comfortable.