About Maxine
Maxine Bailey offers calm, steady support for people dealing with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is making life feel difficult. Her style is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more confident and hopeful in day-to-day life.
She has worked in the United Kingdom for 30 years and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
How Maxine works
That experience has included a wide range of concerns from depression and career problems to coping with major life changes. Maxine adapts her approach to each person rather than using the same steps for everyone. Sessions are focused on what matters most to the client.
Conversations look at current problems, patterns that get in the way, and small changes that can make a difference. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addictions and issues around intimacy and sexuality. Her practice covers everyday struggles such as sleep, eating and motivation, plus longer-standing difficulties like bipolar features, obsessive thinking, or compassion fatigue.
She is comfortable helping people navigating adoption and foster care, autism, hearing impairment and intellectual disability when those issues are relevant. Maxine works with clients who identify as LGBT and addresses multicultural concerns and identity questions. She aims to build a practical plan together, mixing coaching-style goals with therapeutic conversations to support steady progress.
What Maxine works with
The areas below are the ones Maxine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Maxine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear problems and practical steps. One common method addresses unhelpful thinking patterns by helping people notice and change thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood. This approach can suit worry, panic, low self-esteem and some obsessive thinking.Another helpful approach focuses on behaviour change and small practical goals. Sessions set manageable tasks and review progress, which can be useful for sleep problems, motivation, addictive behaviours and daily routine changes.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That makes the plan feel personal and flexible rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Messaging and live chat offer quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options give greater flexibility for people balancing work, family or travel.
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