Maysie Brown

Maysie Brown is a trainee integrative counsellor currently working towards a Diploma in Integrative Counselling. She is developing her counselling practice through supervised client work and brings extensive professional experience of working with adults and young people in education, inclusion and safeguarding. Her integrative approach allows her to draw on diverse therapeutic perspectives and adapt her work to each client’s individual needs and experiences. Maysie believes that counselling is a collaborative process, in which clients can explore their thoughts, feelings and experiences in a safe, respectful and non-judgemental environment. She is committed to working ethically and within the boundaries of her training and professional competence.

Maysie offers a warm, empathic and person-centred approach, taking time to understand each client as an individual rather than making assumptions about their experiences. She believes that being genuinely heard and accepted can be an important part of the therapeutic process. Her integrative training enables her to draw on approaches including Person-Centred Therapy, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt, depending on what may be most helpful for the client. She is particularly interested in understanding the patterns that can develop through relationships and life experiences, including how people may have learned to respond to themselves and others. Maysie aims to create a space where clients can explore difficult emotions, develop greater self-awareness and consider new ways of understanding themselves. Her experience of working with neurodivergent people has also deepened her awareness of the importance of adapting communication and therapeutic work to the individual, rather than expecting the individual to adapt to the system.

Before training as a counsellor, Maysie developed a career spanning many years in education, inclusion and safeguarding, including working with people with a wide range of additional needs and life experiences. Her professional background has given her particular experience of neurodiversity, SEND, inclusion, safeguarding, emotional wellbeing and the challenges that can arise when individuals feel misunderstood or excluded. She has supported people experiencing anxiety, low confidence, relationship difficulties, stress, emotional distress and challenges around identity and belonging. Maysie has a particular interest in neurodiversity and in supporting people who may have spent much of their lives feeling that they need to fit into expectations that do not reflect who they are. Her inclusive practice is grounded in respect for difference, recognising that each person’s experiences, strengths and challenges are unique. She brings curiosity, compassion and a non-judgemental attitude to her counselling work, to help clients feel understood, valued and able to explore what matters to them.