Maaria Blackwell

With over 15 years of clinical experience, Maaria Blackwell has built a practice around the kinds of struggles that quietly take over a person’s life — persistent worry, panic, low mood, trauma, and the intrusive thoughts that make ordinary days feel impossible. Working from Sudbury, Ontario, she holds a Master of Social Work degree and practises as a Registered Social Worker, drawing on approaches grounded in research: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, DBT-informed practice, Behavioural Family Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Interventions.

Her work reaches across the lifespan, supporting children, adolescents, adults, and older adults through depression, anxiety, psychosis, grief, anger, perinatal concerns, self-esteem struggles, and suicidal thought. She also works with couples and families navigating conflict, divorce, infidelity, and the particular strains of parenting. For clients whose compulsive patterns have migrated into scrolling, gaming, or gambling — the same reward loops, new surfaces — that territory is part of what she addresses in individual work.

Sessions are available in person, by phone, or online, and are tailored to each person’s circumstances and story. The starting point is simply that something needs to change, and Maaria is there to help figure out what that looks like.