Mati Ma
Person-centred counsellor for relationships and stress
About Mati
Mati Ma helps people facing relationship strain, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, depression, stress and anxiety. He also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, sleep problems and major life changes. Mati works in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and offers sessions online for people in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Mati uses a straightforward, person-focused approach in sessions. He listens closely and follows each person's pace. Conversations aim to make everyday problems easier to manage and to help people notice what matters to them.
Background and approach
He holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. That reflects a professional commitment to practising within recognised standards. Mati also notes previous work across Hong Kong, Canada and the UK as part of his background.
Before becoming a counsellor he worked in roles supporting young people in schools and community settings. Those roles included behavioural intervention work and youth support positions within Canadian and Scottish educational contexts. This experience informs how he responds to relationship and family-related concerns.
Mati draws on Client-Centred Therapy to build a respectful space where people can talk things through. He aims to help people clarify choices, manage difficult feelings and practise different ways of coping. Sessions are practical and conversational rather than academic.
To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that suits them. Fees vary with location and the service uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Mati works with
How Mati works
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred therapy works online
Mati practises Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening, acceptance and following the client's lead. The therapist creates space for people to talk at their own pace and to reflect on what matters. This approach is useful for relationship struggles, low self-esteem, stress and mood concerns.Sessions are collaborative. Mati will work with each person to decide which ways of working feel most helpful. That might mean trying conversational check-ins, exploring feelings, or practising new ways to cope. The method can change over time as goals and needs become clearer.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial cues and body language, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or travel.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
