Devi Maybanks

Mondays 3.30pm-7.30pm

Tuesdays 5.30pm-7.30pm

Wednesdays 3pm-8pm

Talking therapy is undoubtedly a unique source of support for whole range of mental health challenges. However, talking therapy can also be incredibly helpful for working through relational problems - with partners, friends, parents, children, family or even work colleagues; difficult life/childhood events, illness, life transitions and other challenges that might derail us.

Therapy will help you  make sense of things and learn how your early experiences have shaped you. We will interpret the adaptive patterns you learned early in your life and explore which of those patterns are still running in the here and now. You will understand why you feel and respond in the ways that you do, and work towards changing unhelpful patterns that keep you stuck.

I work with adults and young people (14+) at my private practice in Thame offering short and long-term counselling and psychotherapy. I also work in secondary education as a school counsellor alongside my private practice.

I strongly believe that building a strong, trusting collaborative relationship between therapist and client is the key to successful therapy.  I work in a relational way as an integrative practitioner, weaving in a range of talking therapy techniques throughout my work.

Location

I am based in the centre of Thame OX9 3EX.

As an integrative therapist my counselling work integrates psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural (CBT) modalities. Each approach works on exploring and gaining insight into individual behaviours, beliefs, emotions and thoughts which may be contributing to your current difficulties.

Integrative counselling is a combined approach to therapy which flexibly blends components of different therapies. Integrative therapists work with the idea that there is not one sole therapeutic approach that fits every client in every situation. Instead, each person needs to be considered individually in terms of their physical, mental and emotional well-being. 

Psychodynamic talking therapies involve exploring your early and past experiences and relationships to seek out thoughts, feelings, and memories that may be influencing your current difficulties in the here and now. CBT focuses more on the present and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. It focuses on how your interconnected thoughts, beliefs and attitudes might affect your feelings and actions. 

We can work together to determine which particular therapeutic intervention might work best for you. 

I offer a free 30 minute initial consultation, either face-to-face or on the telephone.