How can I help?
Adults
Individualised care for adults…
Maggie has extensive experience working with adults with varying complexities and difficulties, including; mood and anxiety problems, personality disorders, trauma, attachment, adjustment difficulties the perinatal period or parenting and learning difficulties.
When working with adults Maggie’s primary goal is to provide a safe and secure environment where clients can explore their childhood and how it continues to affect their adult lives and relationships.
Maggie is experienced in a range of evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behaviour (DBT), Schema Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy. Her therapeutic approach is person-centred and she seeks to provide clients an individualised experience of therapy.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you”
Maya Angelou
Young Children
Supporting parents to support children…
When working with children under 12 years of age Maggie values a collaborative approach with parents, that is non-judgemental and respectful. Maggie has experience working across the span of childhood, with infants and toddlers, primary schoolers and those approaching young adulthood. Maggie’s professional experience to date has led to an expertise in guiding parents/carers to best support their children. This includes general parenting support, attachment concerns, complex development trauma, disabilities, learning difficulties/disorders, and mood and anxiety issues.
“There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one”
Sue Atkins
Teens
Understanding Adolescents…
Maggie has unique experience working with adolescents displaying complex mental health issues and high risk behaviours. Working from an attachment focussed lens allows teens who may be resistant to the idea of therapy to relax and utilise the safe space. Maggie works from a harm minimisation perspective and attempts to balance the needs of your teen and collaborating with the family, to provide the best support.
Maggie also has extensive experience working in multidisciplinary teams to support adolescents and will happily liaise with schools or other professionals to ensure your teen has the best possible treatment plan.
Maggie understands that connecting with adolescents and being a safe adult who can understand how they feel, can provide immediate relief.
“We are hardwired to connect with others, it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering”
Brene Brown
Women with ADHD
Neurodiversity in Women….
Supporting women with a late diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism is a specific interest area. Maggie has helped many women navigate the journey to diagnosis and to overcome some the particular challenges that come with being a professional woman or a mother who has ADHD. Maggie also has a lived experience of ADHD and can empathise with the felt experience of neurodiversity and the complexity of depressive and anxious symptoms in the context of ADHD.
She also has expertise helping woman with ADHD parent their neurodiverse children.
“People with ADHD often have a special ‘feel’ for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others need to reason their way methodically”.
Edward Hallowell.
Front Line Workers
Preventing burn out and vicarious trauma…..
Maggie is passionate about providing support to any professional in a caring role, those who are susceptible to burn out or vicarious trauma. Maggie has many years in experience in front line child protection and at the “pointy end” of crisis, stress and trauma. She has expertise in providing support, supervision and management to child protection workers and junior psychologists.
Maggie has an understanding of the complex feelings associated with working in a caring role, but held accountable to wider systems and lack of resources. The care for children, clients and patients leaves many workers vulnerable to vicarious trauma and burn out, often in environments where supervision and support is limited.
Maggie can provide a space for social workers, mental health workers, psychologists, teachers, nurses and other caring professionals, where they can confidentially discuss their roles and specific job burn out.
“Empathy is a finite resource. You can run out. As a normal psychological response, you cannot give of yourself again and again and again without replenishing”
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