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Maria Mars, HCPC
- Credentials
- HCPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseParenting issuesSelf esteemDepression
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Maria Mars uses a blend of practical psychological approaches to help people manage difficult feelings and life changes. She is Maria Mars and she brings 27 years of experience as a HCPC registered professional in the United Kingdom. She aims to build a straightforward, collaborative relationship where people feel heard and can set small, achievable goals.
Her work focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression and sleep problems.
Background and approach
She also helps people coping with trauma and abuse, ADHD, low self-esteem, grief and anger. Relationship strain, LGBT issues and parenting worries are among other areas she addresses. Maria draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs.
She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take meaningful action, and attachment-informed ways to understand close relationships. Dialectical skills are used when people need better emotional regulation and coping tools. Sessions are practical and paced to the individual.
Conversations are plain and focused on concrete steps - learning strategies, trying small experiments and reviewing what helps. The aim is to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Maria has worked across public, voluntary and personal services over many years.
That range of settings means she is familiar with different life circumstances and can help people find approaches that fit their situation and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing small experiments to change behaviours and mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand and improve how they relate to others.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit. Sessions can be reviewed and adapted as progress is made so the plan stays relevant to the person’s needs.
Online therapy here can be delivered by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can work well for shorter check-ins or when a flexible format is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the same therapeutic methods and collaboration.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Registered with
- HCPC
- Languages
- English
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