Maria Mars
Calm, practical therapy for life’s hard moments
About Maria
Maria Mars is a counsellor with 27 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds HCPC registration and aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She uses straightforward language and practical tools to help people manage difficult feelings and day-to-day struggles.
Her work draws on well-known therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Background and approach
She blends these with attachment and client-centred ideas to suit each person’s needs. Sessions focus on clear, doable steps rather than technical jargon. Maria has a wide range of focus areas.
She helps people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief and relationship problems. She also supports those facing parenting strains, sleep difficulties, anger or the impact of major life transitions. She has additional experience with adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiving stress, and communication problems.
Other areas she addresses include domestic violence, immigration issues, gender dysphoria, intellectual disability and isolation or loneliness. People can expect a calm, collaborative approach that aims to make sense of experiences and set realistic goals. Maria works with practical strategies and emotional understanding to help clients build coping skills and move toward better day-to-day functioning.
What Maria works with
How Maria works
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Listed by Maria among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to act in line with what matters most. It is often used for anxiety, stress and adjusting to life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing thinking and behaviour patterns that keep problems going. It offers clear techniques for low mood, anxiety, sleep problems and many everyday difficulties.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance and sorting out relationship difficulties. It can be useful when strong feelings make day-to-day life harder.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, preferences and situation. This decision is revisited as therapy progresses so adjustments can be made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls give a face-to-face feel when interaction matters. Phone sessions or live chat can fit around busy days or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals use these formats to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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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
