About Persa
Dr. Persa Maerz offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She writes plainly and takes a step-by-step approach so conversations stay manageable.
Her manner is warm and focused on helping people regain steady routines and clearer thinking. With nine years of clinical experience and HCPC registration, Dr Maerz draws on a mix of common therapies to suit each person's needs. She blends client-centred listening with practical strategies from cognitive behavioural therapy and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas are used where they fit, always adjusted to the person in front of her. Her background includes work across child and adult services and senior roles in clinics and teams. That experience informs how she plans sessions, whether the focus is grief, trauma, mood, addiction, sleep problems or relationship and communication struggles.
She also has experience with issues linked to culture, identity and sexual expression. Sessions can include short practical exercises, targeted behaviour changes, skills coaching and space to talk through difficult memories. The aim is to build tools people can use between sessions and to try things that make day-to-day life easier.
Dr Maerz also offers clinical supervision and teaching for trainees and other professionals. She works with people from different backgrounds and accepts international clients, holding sessions in English and using video, phone or messaging formats.
How therapy approaches work online
Dr Maerz often uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours; this can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems by teaching practical skills to try between sessions. She also uses dialectical behaviour therapy techniques to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance and improved interpersonal skills during times of intense emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods to match your goals, needs and preferences. Sessions are collaborative, so plans are reviewed and changed when they are not working for you.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. Video calls let you use visual cues and share screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check‑in. Live chat and messaging can suit brief check‑ins, between‑session support or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping a steady treatment plan with a registered HCPC professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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