About Maria
Maria Baxendale Hume helps people facing stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She supports clients who are struggling with relationships, career concerns and changes in life. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses straightforward, talk-based work to help people notice what matters to them. That can mean clarifying values, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, and testing small changes in daily life.
How Maria works
Sessions are practical and focused on what the client wants to change rather than on labels. With ten years of experience, she draws on a few main approaches. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify thinking habits and try different responses.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients accept difficult feelings while taking action towards chosen goals. Existential ideas are woven in to look at meaning and life choices when relevant. People can expect collaboration on goals and steps to practise between sessions.
The pace is set by the client, with exercises offered in an approachable way. Work can include short experiments, breathing or grounding practices, and conversational reflection. Maria holds BACP which is noted here as a professional credential in the UK.
She offers sessions in English and can work with people internationally. The practical aim is to help clients build coping skills and clearer direction so daily life feels easier to manage.
Maria lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Maria works with
The areas below are the ones Maria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while still acting on what matters to them. It focuses on values and small committed steps so life moves in a chosen direction rather than being driven by anxiety or avoidance.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It offers simple experiments and techniques to test unhelpful thinking and try different responses that reduce distress and improve daily routine.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals, preferences and practical needs together and suggest which methods to try first. That choice is revisited as things change so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls suit in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat is useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments and allow continuity when circumstances change.
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