Persistence Magaya
Compassionate counsellor for anxiety and life change
About Persistence
Persistence Magaya is a BACP counsellor who helps people feeling stuck, unsure or disconnected. She focuses on low self-worth, anxiety, trauma, grief and major life changes. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at making talking about hard things easier.
She offers a calm space where people can look at what lies beneath their worries. Sessions move at a person’s pace and aim to make confusing feelings clearer. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her background blends psychodynamic ideas with attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural techniques. That mix allows a focus on how early relationships shape current reactions, while also using practical steps to reduce worry and change unhelpful habits. She uses approaches that match each person’s needs rather than a single fixed method.
Persistence brings three years of professional experience and works with a wide range of concerns such as relationships, parenting pressures, anger, compassion fatigue and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also supports people facing separation, betrayal or grief and those trying to find new direction in midlife.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit their timing. Her aim is to help people feel less alone with their struggles and to build clearer choices about how to move forward.
What Persistence works with
How Persistence works
Listed by Persistence among the ways they work.
Listed by Persistence among the ways they work.
Listed by Persistence among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people feel and connect today. It helps with trust, closeness and repeating patterns in relationships by exploring emotional needs and building new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, often called CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It uses straightforward exercises to reduce anxiety, shift unhelpful thinking and develop practical coping skills for day-to-day life.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to deeper patterns and past experiences that influence current behaviour. It can help people understand why certain problems keep coming back and give space to process complex emotions like grief or shame.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together and adjust as needed. This collaborative process helps ensure sessions stay relevant to each person’s situation.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for longer talks and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or flexible timing. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
