Maria Baxendale Hume, BACP
10 years in practice
Maria Baxendale Hume offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low confidence or life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 117742 · expires April 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Maria
Maria Baxendale Hume offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low confidence or life changes. She is Maria Baxendale Hume, a counsellor with ten years' experience and a BACP credential. She aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and to find workable steps forward.
She creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can share thoughts and feelings openly. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her, not on labels.
Background and approach
Maria helps people name their concerns and set small goals that fit their life. Her approach combines short-term tools and deeper reflection. That means practical ways to cope now alongside thinking about meaning, values and what a fuller life might look like.
Conversations cover everyday problems like sleep, work stress and parenting as well as past hurts and grief. Maria uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy together with existential ideas about purpose and choice. She adapts the style to each person, mixing exercises, gentle challenge and reflective discussion as needed.
Sessions can include planning for change, building confidence, improving communication, or learning to manage mood and anxiety. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Maria supports people to move from feeling stuck to taking steady steps forward.
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
Approaches Maria names
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches shape online work
Existential therapy helps people look at life questions like meaning, choice and responsibility. It supports people who feel stuck by opening up what matters to them and considering different ways to live. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match your values; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Maria will discuss options and tailor a mix that fits someone’s goals and preferences. The process is collaborative so the person and therapist test what helps and adjust as progress unfolds.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and good for exercises that use facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief exchanges, journalling between sessions, or steady support when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel, while keeping a consistent therapeutic relationship.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She sees people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, low self-esteem, career issues, grief, trauma and related concerns listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines practical exercises with reflective conversation, using short-term coping strategies alongside deeper exploration of meaning and values.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working with a broad range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She works from the United Kingdom and holds BACP as listed in her profile.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She accepts international clients and is able to meet across borders when scheduling allows.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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