About Maria
Maria Wallgren brings seven years of counselling experience to her work in Australia. She is an ACA counsellor who creates a calm, respectful space for people to talk about what matters most. Maria’s approach is warm and non-judgemental and she aims to help clients feel heard and understood.
Maria draws on a person-centred foundation alongside practical methods to suit each person’s needs. She combines cognitive behavioural techniques with mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people manage stress, anxiety and depression.
How Maria works
Sessions also address relationship strains, self-esteem and coping with life changes. Her background includes roles in corporate, personal, higher education, psychiatric and not-for-profit settings in Australia and Europe. That variety shaped a flexible style and an interest in working with cultural diversity and transnational counselling.
Maria has also supported people facing workplace issues, panic attacks and feelings of isolation. Maria likes to keep sessions straightforward and collaborative. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and develop small, practical steps they can try between sessions.
She also works with stories people tell about themselves, looking for strengths and new perspectives. People who prefer a compassionate, down-to-earth counsellor tend to fit well with Maria’s style. She values empathy and respect and supports clients as they explore purpose, forgiveness, guilt and rebuilding self-love.
Maria lists 5 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
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Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and building a respectful relationship so people feel able to talk openly about their concerns. It helps with emotional difficulties and finding direction when life feels uncertain.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect and gives practical steps to reduce anxiety, panic and low mood. It often involves simple exercises and strategies to try between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice the present moment and reduce overthinking through breathing and attention exercises, which many find useful for stress and panic symptoms.
Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do together with the client. Maria uses conversation to work out which methods suit a person’s goals and comfort level, and adapts techniques as problems change over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or ongoing text-based messaging. Video lets visual cues guide the work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility for different routines and needs.
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