Maxine Bailey
Experienced counsellor for life transitions
About Maxine
Maxine Bailey offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes, stress, anxiety or low self-esteem. She works with those facing career challenges, depression, addiction concerns and grief. Her manner is respectful and compassionate.
She aims to make starting therapy less daunting and more practical for each person. With three decades of experience, Maxine shapes conversations to fit the individual. She listens for what matters most and then helps set manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems and clear next steps rather than jargon or theory alone. Her approach is personal and flexible. Maxine adapts how she talks and plans work together depending on the person’s needs and circumstances.
That might mean short-term support for a specific issue or longer work on patterns that keep repeating. People come to her with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, trauma and abuse, eating or sleeping difficulties, ADHD and bipolar challenges. She also offers help around life purpose, multicultural issues and adoption or foster-care related matters.
Maxine is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used then a time is scheduled according to therapist availability.
What Maxine works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Maxine uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and clearer coping. One common approach helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding; it suits anxiety, depression and many daily stressors. Another approach concentrates on building skills and routines to support sleep, eating and impulse control, which can help with addictions, ADHD and mood regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend ways to try and adapt them based on progress. That collaborative process helps people feel involved in planning their sessions.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and messaging can suit those who prefer shorter, written exchanges or need flexible timing. These options aim to increase accessibility and make it easier to keep regular contact with a therapist.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
