About Mati
Mati Ma is a counsellor and psychotherapist who helps people with relationship problems, self-esteem difficulties, career stress, anxiety and depression. He also supports those coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, sleep problems and major life changes. Mati works in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and is based in the United Kingdom.
He holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Mati uses a straightforward and warm style in sessions.
Background and approach
He prioritises listening and reflecting so people feel heard. Conversations focus on what matters now and on practical steps someone can try between sessions. His background spans youth work, school counselling and conflict resolution.
That experience informs his work with individuals facing family problems, attachment or abandonment concerns, and issues linked to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Mati also commonly addresses intimacy-related issues, communication and codependency. He has experience working with people exploring BDSM, kink and alternative sex culture and with those managing caregiver stress and commitment worries.
Sessions aim to help people understand patterns, notice options and try small changes that reduce distress. With three years practising as a counsellor and psychotherapist in the UK, he draws on earlier roles in Canada and Scotland to shape a practical, person-focused approach.
How client-centred care adapts to online therapy
Mati works from a client-centred perspective that emphasises listening and empathy. This approach focuses on the person’s experience, helping them voice concerns and make their own choices. It can be useful for relationship issues, anxiety, low self-esteem and navigating life transitions.He also draws on his background in school counselling and conflict resolution to offer practical, problem-focused conversations. That helps when someone needs clear steps for communication problems, caregiver stress, or coping after traumatic events. The clinician and client decide together which ways of working feel most helpful and adjust as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and build rapport, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short reflections or people who find writing easier than speaking.
Working online makes sessions more flexible for different schedules and time zones. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose formats and a pace that match their goals and day-to-day life.
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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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
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