About Maria
Maria Baxendale Hume is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage anxiety, stress and difficult life changes. She draws on ten years of professional experience and aims to create an open space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgement. Maria welcomes people who want practical ways to feel steadier and more in control.
Maria uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to help people notice what matters to them and take small steps towards change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday tools that can be used between meetings. She supports people working through relationship strain, low self-esteem, career uncertainty and grief, among other concerns. Her style is collaborative and calm.
Maria listens first, then offers ideas and exercises agreed with the person in front of her. Therapy can include thinking about unhelpful patterns, trying small behavioural experiments, and clarifying personal values to guide decisions. People meet with Maria for a mix of short-term problem solving and longer work when issues run deeper.
She also incorporates coaching techniques for practical life and career goals alongside therapeutic work. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Practical arrangements such as session format and scheduling are discussed at the start.
Maria explains options clearly so people can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging according to what fits their life and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Maria draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online work. ACT focuses on helping people notice their values and take action in spite of difficult thoughts or feelings, which can be useful for anxiety and life transitions. CBT helps identify and test unhelpful thinking patterns and build small behavioural changes to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Maria will talk through your goals, preferences and the practical challenges you bring, and together you will choose methods that suit you. It is common to blend techniques from both ACT and CBT so the work fits each person rather than sticking to a single model.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer, interactive session is needed. Phone sessions can fit a short break from work or be easier if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, journalling-style work or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy lives and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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