Maria Baxendale Hume, BACP
Maria Baxendale Hume is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of experience.
About Maria
Maria Baxendale Hume is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with ten years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, career worries and life changes. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can say what matters to them and start to make practical changes.
Her sessions focus on what the client wants to achieve. Conversations look at thoughts, behaviours and values so small steps can lead to noticeable change.
Background and approach
She draws on practical strategies and reflective work to help people manage mood, motivation and everyday pressures. Maria uses several evidence-based approaches to guide sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and existential ideas inform how she supports people.
These approaches are used in everyday language to make the work easy to follow and apply between sessions. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, chronic health issues and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment, adoption and foster care, body image and communication problems.
This breadth helps her tailor sessions to each person’s situation. In practice she encourages collaboration and clear, realistic goals. Sessions tend to balance skilful problem-solving with space to reflect on meaning and values.
People leave with tools they can use and a clearer sense of direction.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 117742 | April 2026 |
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Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Maria lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Ways of working Maria names
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How Maria’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps towards those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Existential Therapy invites reflection on meaning, choice and responsibility, which can help when facing grief, identity questions or big life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as the relationship develops. This is a collaborative process where options are tried and adjusted based on what helps you most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep continuity when travel or scheduling is difficult.
Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns does Maria help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues around relationships and intimacy. Additional areas include parenting strain, ADHD, chronic illness and career difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, mixing practical skills with reflective conversations. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps you can try between meetings.
How long has she been practising?
She has ten years of professional experience working with people on a wide range of concerns.
What credentials and location are relevant?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I am outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What is the process for starting therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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