About Maxine
Maxine Bailey is a counsellor with three decades of experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works in straightforward language and focuses on practical steps that make day to day life easier. She aims to help with confidence, motivation and moods so people can move forward with more clarity and calm.
Her approach is respectful and down to earth. Sessions are adapted to each person, with plans shaped around what the individual needs and finds helpful.
Background and approach
Maxine listens for what matters most and then helps people notice patterns and try small, manageable changes. She has spent many years helping people with career worries, life changes and the low mood that can come from burnout or grief. Addictions, intimacy difficulties and relationship problems are also part of her experience.
She works with concerns around sleep, eating, attention differences and obsessive behaviours. Maxine also brings experience supporting people through identity and diversity issues, including LGBT topics, multicultural concerns and adoption or foster-care related matters. She can help with parenting strains, carers' fatigue and the stress of juggling multiple roles.
Maxine is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and works with people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Practical, compassionate help is at the centre of her work.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used in a practical way. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and then testing gentle changes in daily life to reduce anxiety and low mood. This helps with worries, sleeplessness and repetitive negative thoughts. Another approach emphasises problem-solving and goal setting, breaking larger issues into small, manageable steps to improve confidence and motivation.Choosing the right way to work is a shared process. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan so sessions feel useful and relevant.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video sessions allow face to face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when short check-ins or lower bandwidth are needed. Chat and messaging suit quick reflections, notes between sessions or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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