About me
Do you feel like the life you've built no longer quite fits? Perhaps your children have left home, your career has stopped feeling meaningful, menopause has changed how you experience yourself, or a relationship has shifted - and you're left wondering what comes next.
I'm Maxine, a BACP-registered counsellor and psychotherapist offering online sessions across the UK and Europe. I work particularly with women in their 40s, 50s and 60s navigating midlife transitions: anxiety, low mood, loss of confidence, relationship difficulties, empty nest, career change, ageing parents, and the quiet sense of being invisible or overlooked.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and unhurried. I won't tell you what to do - I'll help you understand what's really going on beneath the surface, so change comes from real clarity rather than a quick fix.
Many of the women I work with describe a similar feeling: from the outside, everything looks fine. Inside, they feel flat, anxious, or unsure who they are anymore. Common threads include:
- Anxiety and overwhelm
- Loss of confidence or sense of self
- Empty nest and shifting family roles
- Menopause-related emotional change
- Career dissatisfaction or a desire to change direction
- Relationship difficulties, divorce or separation
- Grief and loss
- Feeling stuck, undervalued or invisible despite outward success
I also work with the wider range of difficulties that bring people to counselling - depression, stress, trauma, bereavement, work issues - with clients of all genders and backgrounds, from students and academics to people in farming and rural communities, healthcare, and the performing arts.
Before training as a therapist, I went through several of my own major life pivots - career changes, a period as a stay-at-home mother, and later the adjustment to an empty nest. That lived experience shapes how I work: I know these transitions from the inside, not just the textbook.
Together, we might explore:
- Who you are beneath the roles you've been playing - your values, strengths, and what actually matters to you now
- The patterns, beliefs and past experiences quietly driving how you feel today
- What's draining you and what nourishes you, across work, relationships and daily life
- What you want next - whether that's a new direction, a different way of living, or simply more peace with where you are
My style is warm, direct and down-to-earth rather than clinical. I won't hand you a five-step plan or tell you what to do. Instead, I'll help you slow down enough to understand your own experience clearly - because lasting change tends to come from that understanding, not from working around it.
If any of this sounds familiar, I'd be glad to hear from you. An initial conversation carries no obligation - it's simply a chance to see whether I'm the right fit for what you need.
Since all sessions take place online, you can work with me from anywhere in the UK and Europe as long as you have a private, confidential space where you won't be interrupted.
Ready to take the next step? You can reach me by email or by calling or texting 07501729248.
Training, qualifications & experience
My qualifications include:
- Postgraduate diploma in counselling and psychotherapy practice
- Postgraduate certificate in psychotherapy studies
- Advanced professional diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling
- Diploma in delivering counselling online
- Certificate in awareness in bereavement care
- Certificate in person-centred counselling skills
- Certificate in counselling skills
- Certificate in stress management
- Certificate in therapeutic coaching skills
My experience includes working for MIND, Cruse Bereavement Care, NHS-referred clients, a farming charity, as well as private practice.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and am on a register that has been accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
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