Dr. Persa Maerz, HCPC

Dr. Persa Maerz is a HCPC-registered practitioner in the United Kingdom with nine years of clinical experience. She sees adults and young people for common difficulties such as stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and anger. She also offers clinical supervision and teaching for trainees and other psychologists.

She draws on a mix of practical approaches when people come with strong feelings or stressful situations. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday strategies that can be practised between meetings. She uses evidence-based methods alongside reflective work to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding.

Her background includes roles as a consultant, team lead and supervisor across child and adolescent mental health services and adult services. That work involved supporting colleagues, teaching, and supervising trainees as well as direct clinical work. She also has experience with trauma-related difficulties and post-traumatic stress presentations.

Therapeutic methods Persa uses include client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour tools, mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking. She offers non-directive play therapy for children when appropriate and combines short-term problem solving with deeper reflective work when needed.

She has worked with a wide range of concerns such as relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and blended family matters, addictions, cultural adjustment, sexual diversity and issues connected to kink and alternative sex culture. When people come because anger has become a problem, she helps them look at triggers, patterns and practical skills for managing impulses and repairing relationships.

To begin, people choose an online matching route and book a first session where goals and practical steps are discussed. Her practice aims to be straightforward and task-focused while leaving room for exploring longer-standing patterns.

How her approaches work online