About Maria
Maria Haidermota offers straightforward, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, parenting pressures or relationship strain. She is an ACA counsellor with ten years' experience and speaks English, Gujarati and Hindi. She aims to make sessions feel approachable and useful from the first conversation.
Maria keeps sessions warm and collaborative. She listens first, then works with each person to identify small changes that can make daily life easier.
How Maria works
She focuses on practical strategies as well as understanding the feelings behind them. Her background includes a decade supporting people through anxiety, self-esteem concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and parenting stress. Maria also works with issues such as attachment struggles, blended family dynamics and isolation or loneliness.
She uses a trauma-aware perspective when past experiences affect present behaviour. Sessions can explore communication problems, commitment worries, guilt and shame, or questions about life purpose and midlife change. Maria also supports people with body image concerns, impulsivity and intellectual disability-related challenges, tailoring her approach to each person's needs.
She offers therapy in several formats so people can choose what fits their life. The focus is on building resilience, clearer self-understanding and practical skills that can be used outside sessions. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that suits them.
Maria aims to work alongside clients as they make steady, workable changes.
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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Gujarati, Hindi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy works
Maria blends practical, evidence-based techniques with a person-centred, trauma-aware outlook. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try different ways of behaving; it is often used for anxiety, stress and self-esteem work. Person-centred approaches focus on giving the client space to be heard and on building a trusting connection before trying new strategies. A trauma-informed perspective means attention to how past experiences can shape current reactions and the pace of work is adjusted accordingly.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose techniques together that feel workable and manageable. This collaborative way helps the client stay in control of what happens in sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can pick what suits their routine. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, while chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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A practical next step
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