“I started seeing Maya as my business had just collapsed and I was in and out of a very troubled relationship. At first I was scared to go and only did so on a friends recommendation. I felt it wasn’t going to be something for me but after a couple of sessions I felt comfortable and knew I was going to get a great deal out of the time I dedicated to the process.

We worked on rebuilding my confidence and figuring out why I was the way I was in relationships. We reached a natural conclusion of working together were we both felt I was back on track with my career and I had found myself in a stable relationship.

Maya’s approach is calm and reassuring. I didn’t ever feel judged – no matter how bad I felt about what I was sharing. It was very much a safe place were I could be open and talk through things to figure out why I felt a certain way. I believe that going to see Maya and committing to it for over a year was one of the best things I’ve done for myself and will look back on it as a step change moment for both my personal life and my career. “

“I have had the privilege of knowing Maya as a friend and colleague. I participated in therapy training groups alongside Maya at The University of Edinburgh and later at Bright Light Relationship Counselling where she worked with both individuals and couples from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Observing and interacting with Maya in these contexts, I experienced her as a very warm, engaging, and reliable person and practitioner. I have witnessed her passion for counselling and psychotherapy and have also seen her build strong relationships with her clients. Maya is a therapist I often refer clients to as I trust her wholeheartedly to offer a relationship that is supportive and healing for the people she works with.”

“I just wanted to write you a wee note to let you know how much our sessions have meant to me over the past year. I really don’t know where we`d be if I hadn’t come to speak to you. You`ve helped me through the darkest time of my life, when I thought there was no hope, when there was nearly nothing left of me.

You`ve been a lovely, calm voice of reality, kindness, safety and hope that gave me enough strengths to keep going each day. I will miss our sessions and the comfort you brought to us, but I am also now hopeful for our future. This is mostly due to your wonderful support. So thank you with all our hearts.”

“I just wanted to take the time to thank you for `being with me` just the way I needed. For the first time I felt I had real space to explore myself and came to a greater awareness of how I am in the world. I always felt safe and able to go at my own pace. You`re an absolute credit to the counselling and psychotherapy profession.”

“As a therapist of highest integrity, a significant aspect of Maya’s strengths is her capacity to support, empathise with and facilitate the potential in individual, couple and group diversity. Her own lived experience of studying, living and working in different countries – Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, UK – especially enhances her sensitivity.”

“It is a weird thought to say goodbye to someone who knows so much about yourself. Thank you so very much for being there every week. For listening and organising all those long hidden boxes on my brain shelf. For providing all those tissues and never steeling any from my box. For the right questions, wise theories and laughs at the right time. In my eyes you are a remarkable counsellor, if that counts for anything.”

“I was a client and worked with Maya from October 2017 to May 2018. My counselling experience was deeply personal and incredibly transformational in the end.

Maya is an absolute professional and she created a counselling environment based on high levels of trust, empathy and a real understanding of what it means to be human. This enabled me to make the change possible.”

As Maya’s supervisor I experience Maya to be highly motivated and self-aware; always willing to expand her knowledge of self, others, and situations for the benefit of the counselling process. She is sensitive and conscientious counsellor and offers clients a safe place where they can openly explore their life situations.”

“Maya was a joy to work with in the clinical practice at the outpatient psychiatric unit within the Salhgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburgh, Sweden. She is warm, empathic and a highly competent practitioner and was an asset to the clinic and her clients.”

I contacted Maya when I had an important life decision to make. She offered me a safe and non judgemental space to process my emotions, think and reflect. Thanks to her kind, gentle and attentive presence, I felt heard and she offered me a space that was based on my needs. The work I have done with her helped me to feel confident to take, what was for me at the time, a big decision as a woman and a parent, and most importantly, to feel at peace with with it. I am lucky to have a therapist I trust and can go back to in the future when I feel the need again.