About Mati
Mati Ma offers support for people facing relationship worries, low self-esteem, career stress, anxiety, depression and sleep problems. He also helps with compassion fatigue, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues and family problems. Mati speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese and works with individuals from different cultural backgrounds.
Mati uses a straightforward, person-centred style. He aims to make sessions feel calm and focused. People can expect a listening ear, gentle questioning and practical suggestions to try between meetings.
How Mati works
He brings a background that spans Hong Kong, Canada and the United Kingdom. That lived experience shapes how he understands cultural pressure and migration-related stress. His earlier roles included work in schools and youth services, where he supported young people in day-to-day settings.
Mati has three years of practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist and holds BACP registration. He draws on simpler, human-centred methods rather than technical jargon, so sessions tend to be easy to follow and relevant to daily life.
People often turn to him for help with attachment and abandonment worries, communication and commitment problems, caregiving stress and the challenges of neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. He also addresses issues connected to sexual expression, including BDSM, kink and alternative sex culture. Mati offers a mix of conversation and practical coping strategies.
He works collaboratively to figure out what helps most, and adapts how he works to each person’s circumstances and goals.
Mati lists one way of working on the entry:
What Mati works with
The areas below are the ones Mati selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin, Cantonese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How client-centred therapy fits into online work
Mati uses a client-centred approach that focuses on the person rather than labels. This means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what is heard and follows the client’s pace to build trust. It is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns and when people need steady, non-judgemental support.His practice draws on straightforward conversation and practical coping tools. Sessions aim to help people make sense of emotions, try small changes and notice what works in everyday life. That approach can suit issues such as compassion fatigue, trauma reactions, attachment worries and communication problems.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Mati will collaborate with each person to choose methods and session styles that match their needs and goals. He regularly reviews progress and adjusts the focus so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and routines. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can suit brief check-ins and messaging works for short updates or reflective notes. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and make it simpler to keep regular contact with a registered or accredited professional.
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