About Maria
Maria Stride is a person-centred counsellor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety and life changes. She works with clients facing grief, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem and depression. Maria also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, sleeping problems and work-related strain.
Her manner is warm and down-to-earth, so conversations stay practical and grounded. With six years of experience, Maria focuses on what each person needs rather than following one strict method.
Background and approach
She listens first and helps clients set small, manageable goals. Sessions can include talking, gentle exercises and creative tasks to make feelings easier to access. Maria uses mindfulness techniques to help people anchor in the present.
She also draws on solution-focused ideas to identify strengths and build step-by-step plans. The person-centred stance keeps the client’s priorities central to every session. People come to her with a wide range of concerns including intimacy issues, anger, career questions, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges.
She also addresses additional matters such as attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiving stress, codependency and isolation. Maria works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. Her approach aims to be collaborative and practical, helping people find clearer ways forward at a pace that suits them.
How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Maria uses person-centred counselling to create a respectful and listening space online. This approach focuses on understanding each person’s experience and following their pace, which helps when working through anxiety, grief or relationship concerns.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people ground themselves during sessions. Mindfulness work can include short breath exercises or guided attention practices that help reduce frantic thinking and improve sleep patterns.
Solution-focused elements are used to identify small steps and build on what is already working. These practical conversations aim to create change quickly and can be especially useful for managing stress, career decisions and everyday coping skills.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Maria works collaboratively to find what suits each person best. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then adapt methods as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can fit rounds of reflection into a busy day. These options make it easier to include therapy around work, caregiving and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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