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Maria Baxendale Hume, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changes
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Maria Baxendale Hume meets people who are nervous about taking the first step. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. Maria helps with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, motivation and career worries, as well as relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
Maria is a BACP counsellor with ten years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She aims to create an open space where clients can talk without being judged.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to handle day-to-day problems and build skills that make life feel more manageable. Her work often draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and to try different patterns in everyday life. She also uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and move toward the life they want.
Existential ideas are used when people want to examine meaning and the big questions that influence how they live. Maria has supported people facing grief, trauma, chronic health issues and caring strain, as well as those dealing with ADHD, bipolar and depression.
She also helps with parenting pressures, blended family matters, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges around body image and intimacy. Sessions are offered online or by phone, with text and live chat available for shorter check-ins. To start, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a suitable time is arranged.
The subscription used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then act in ways that reflect what matters most. This can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioural experiments to change day-to-day patterns, which often helps with stress, sleep and relationship tensions. Existential Therapy invites clients to consider meaning, choice and responsibility when major life questions or grief arise.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, and will adjust methods collaboratively as progress is made. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan stays relevant to their needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call and by phone, with live chat and text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or quick updates. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text options suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping a steady course of support.
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Areas of focus
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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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