Maria Walker

Therapy is not about changing you, but rather enabling you to become fully who you are.

I have over 25 years experience helping people explore and confront challenging situations, and find solutions to problems (both old and new) that seem overwhelming. I am adept at providing a safe, supportive and creative atmosphere that will enable you to develop a new capacity for coping, understanding, and changing what distresses you.​

Issues I am experienced with include:

• relationship difficulties (personal or professional)
• parenting
• Pre-natal and Post–natal Distress in both men and women
• transitions (relationship break up, work, redundancy, immigration, life stages)
• loss of identity
• grief, loss, bereavement
• trauma (past or current)
• stress and depression (including recovery from a breakdown)
• crisis
• couples therapy
• sexual issues
• adoption, sense of belonging

Experience

During the past 20 years I have worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist in a variety of settings including: private practice, Crisis Counselling in response to the Christchurch Earthquake, a Sexual Health Clinic, Lifeline phone counselling service, facilitated Living Without Violence Support Groups, and as the Group Facilitator with Mothers’ Network in Wellington (providing education and support for new mothers).