About Maria
Maria Mars is a HCPC-registered clinician with 27 years of experience working across public, voluntary and personal mental health settings in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and related difficulties. Maria writes plainly and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and individuals alike.
Her work draws on several well-known therapeutic approaches. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and teach skills that change stressful patterns.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify values and take small, consistent actions that matter to them. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about early relationships and how they affect current coping. Maria has particular experience with parenting concerns, low self-esteem and identity issues, including racial and sexual identity.
She also supports people facing grief, sleep disruption, anger and the effects of trauma and abuse. Other focus areas include ADHD, bipolar and mood disorders, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges linked to autism or intellectual disability. Sessions aim to be collaborative.
Maria helps people set clear, achievable goals and practises skills together in session. She offers practical strategies as well as space to understand feelings and relationships. Therapy can take different forms depending on the person.
Maria works with people to decide which techniques and pacing suit them best, and she adapts her approach to each person’s needs and life situation.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Maria frequently uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and learning practical skills to change reactions and behaviour, which fits well into structured video or phone sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasises clarifying values and taking small meaningful actions, and it works well when people want to balance thinking work with everyday tasks between sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most useful, try methods in session and adjust based on progress and preferences. This lets goals, pace and techniques evolve together rather than being fixed from the start.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, ongoing tracking of progress and timely coaching between longer meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and other responsibilities while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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