Maaria Aksar , BACP

Maaria Aksar is a person-centered counsellor with five years of experience supporting people through depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, career concerns and workplace stress. She creates a warm, interactive therapy space where empathy and acceptance guide each conversation, and she meets clients without judgement regardless of their background or values.

Working from a person-centered foundation, Maaria offers unconditional positive regard and patience as clients explore difficult feelings such as shame, anger, sadness and hopelessness. She combines this approach with cognitive-behavioural techniques and solution-focused strategies to tailor sessions to each person’s needs, helping them make sense of their experience and identify practical ways to cope.

Known for a compassionate and non-stigmatising style, she values respect, sensitivity and honest dialogue. Maaria holds BACP credentials - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and adapts treatment plans to suit individual goals, whether the focus is on self-esteem, grief, coping with life changes, or compassion fatigue. She encourages clients to take courageous steps toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support throughout the therapeutic process.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and offering empathy, acceptance and support to help clients explore their feelings at their own pace. This approach is often helpful for issues like low self-esteem, grief, and feeling overwhelmed by life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression and workplace stress. It uses structured techniques to create change in thoughts and behaviours over time.

Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on clients’ strengths and workable steps toward specific goals, making it useful when change is needed quickly or when people want to build on what already works in their lives.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be a collaborative decision between the client and the therapist. Licensed professionals will work with clients to match methods to their needs, goals and preferences and adapt as those needs evolve.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people balancing work, family or caregiving responsibilities. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit sessions into busy schedules and access support from different locations while working with experienced therapists.