About Maria
Maria Daradar is a counsellor with PACFA credentials and ten years of experience in Australia. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. Maria aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supports people as they work toward greater wellbeing.
She creates a calm space for people to talk about what’s worrying them. Sessions are held without judgment and with straightforward guidance.
Background and approach
Maria encourages gentle steps rather than big leaps, so progress feels doable. Her work often centres on practical coping skills for stress and anxiety. She helps people develop ways to manage strong emotions after loss or traumatic events.
Conversations also address patterns that keep problems repeating, such as attachment or communication difficulties. Maria brings experience helping people through separation, workplace strain, and midlife reassessment. She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and self-worth.
The approach is person-focused and paced to each individual’s needs. Sessions use clear language and everyday strategies that can be applied between meetings. Maria invites people to try new ways of thinking and acting, then reviews what works.
Her aim is to empower clients to make choices that reflect their values and long-term goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Maria works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and understanding. One approach helps people learn practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, grounding methods, and step-by-step plans to face worry. This style supports day-to-day management and reduces overwhelm.Another strand focuses on processing trauma and loss in manageable stages, helping people make sense of painful memories and emotions while building resilience. This can help with grief, post-traumatic stress, and recovering from abuse, by gradually restoring a sense of control and safety in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then choose techniques that suit the person’s needs and pace. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
The practice offers online sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, and text or chat sessions suit brief check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions and to work on goals from different places.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Tagalog
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