About Maria
Maria Haidermota is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She meets each person where they are and focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Maria speaks English, Gujarati and Hindi so some clients find it easier to explain themselves in those languages.
Maria works in a warm, interactive way. Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people try small changes that build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Her practice uses a mix of evidence-based techniques. Maria draws on cognitive and person-centred ideas and pays attention to how past events affect present feelings. This means she helps people understand patterns and learn skills to break them.
Parents and adults often come for help with relationships, parenting stress, self-esteem or life transitions. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, attachment questions, autism and blended family challenges. Maria keeps her language plain and practical so ideas are easy to use between sessions.
Clients can expect a respectful, culturally aware approach. Maria aims to build resilience and clearer decision-making rather than focusing only on symptoms. Her goal is to help people leave therapy with tools they actually use in their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Maria commonly uses cognitive approaches and person-centred methods in her online work. Cognitive approaches help people recognise unhelpful thinking and learn practical techniques to reduce anxiety and stress. Person-centred work focuses on listening carefully and reflecting back what matters to the client so they feel understood and can make their own choices.She also integrates trauma-informed ideas, which mean paying attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and pacing work to match each person's readiness. Together with the client she explores which approach feels most useful and adjusts methods as needs and goals change. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all decision.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video makes it easier to use visual tools and face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Gujarati, Hindi
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