About Luana
Luana Maki offers a client-centred approach that focuses on listening and understanding each person as an individual. Luana is a BACP counsellor with three years of experience supporting people through anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and depression. The first sessions are careful and calm, with attention to what matters most to the client right now.
Luana blends client-centred practice with psychodynamic thinking and mindfulness. That means sessions combine open listening with attention to patterns from the past, and simple techniques to steady the mind in difficult moments.
How Luana works
The work is tailored to what a person needs rather than fitting them to a single method. People come for help with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy questions, and grief. Luana also helps with parenting strain, ADHD-related concerns, body image, and managing chronic illness or pain.
There is specialist knowledge around attachment, BDSM and kink, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, and the effects of domestic violence. Sessions aim to make space for the stories that shape someone’s life. Luana focuses on practical changes and on helping people notice the patterns that keep them stuck.
Conversations can include coaching-style planning when that is useful. Therapy is offered via video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
Work begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Luana lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Luana works with
The areas below are the ones Luana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Luana uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening closely and building understanding from the person’s own goals and experiences. This approach helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to make sense of what they want to change.Mindfulness therapy is also part of the work and introduces simple practices to reduce racing thoughts and bring attention to the present moment. These techniques can help with anxiety, stress and difficult emotions by offering practical ways to manage overwhelming feelings.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process and Luana treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals and try different approaches, adjusting plans as progress is made and as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel much like an in-person session, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and live chat or text messaging can suit those who prefer writing or need more frequent, brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties or other commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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