Maxine Stevens

I work in private Practice on Wednesday and Thursday.

I am contactable Monday to Friday

I’m a qualified integrative counsellor and currently training as a psychotherapist at the Karuna Institute.

I will meet you with an open mind and heart, and a bit of humour which can help when faced with difficult circumstances. Having undergone my own therapy and felt the life changing benefits of that, I now see this positive change in the people I work with. 

Having struggled with my own mental health, I felt I couldn’t speak up about my experience and felt so isolated from friends and family. So, I share this here in the hope of raising awareness and enable others to speak out and ask for help.

I offer one to one sessions with adults and young people from the age of 16, working with a range of age groups to see the fullness of life from youth to later years. I work both in a private practice and in a secondary school.

I offer one to one sessions of integrative counselling, meaning that I tailor my approach to fit the person that sits with me. This is a joint discovery, working together to explore the challenges the individual may be facing.

Integrative counselling involves an adaptive approach, whereby I pull on a number of therapeutic practices, fully responding to the individual to explore together what challenges they may be facing. There is flexibility in this model of counselling as it moves with the needs of the individual, as they change and develop throughout the counselling process.

My approach is very much focussed on building a trusting relationship together. The most important part of a therapeutic relationship is finding a therapist you can feel comfortable with and trust.

I offer one hour sessions near Totnes, South Hams and Teignbridge areas. I work face to face or online.