Encouraging healthy life connections with
curiosity and compassion

I am here to think with you, not for you as your compassionate other while you process your thoughts, reflect on your feelings and work towards making healthier life choices.

Building trust can take time within the therapeutic relationship and therapy process.

I am here to provide compassionate responses as we discover what is going on within your sense of self and your experiences. My focus is to offer a compassionate space with curiosity to enable you to gain deeper insight and attain clarification of the choices you make are what supports your needs now.

I offer a neurodivergent affirming approach.

TAKING THE 4 COURAGEOUS STEPS

What to expect from me

Make Contact

I welcome your curiosity to get in touch to ask questions to see if we are a good fit to work together.

Your courage is met by my compassion to hear your story, your challenges and I look forward to sharing how I work from my approach.

Consultation

We share the session together to identify what your needs are for personal therapy. I ask questions to gather information to build a picture of what is impacting you in your life with your courage to be open.

It’s a collaboration, and I will ask you how you feel about working with me at the end of this session.

There is no obligation to commit to continuing working with me at this stage, I value you might need time to sit with reflecting on our time spent together.

Continuing the process

If we choose to work together, we will agree to work towards another 4 sessions, and this can continue with regular reviews to see if the therapy is meeting your needs.

It requires a commitment from both of us to be honest and sensitive to each other’s ongoing agreements and boundaries.

Courage, Change, Continue

My therapeutic approach offers a safe space to be curious about what feels tricky for you within your thoughts, feelings, communication and connections with your self and others.

It takes courage to be open to learning about the different parts of yourself that can be impacted. With a willingness to try out new ways of being to alleviate suffering to make significant changes.

My Services

My intention is to provide an approach that offers you psychological safety to explore, reflect and process through your lived experiences. We all have a tricky brain and reactive body that suffers through challenging life events.

I am here to support you to alleviate your suffering and be with you as you make self-discoveries that enable you to heal and recover with acceptance and compassion

Therapy for adults 18 years and over

I support my clients in exploring what is currently going on in their life and we may look at patters of behaviours, thinking, communicating and their responses to self and others. It might be helpful to look at early life events that contribute to the way they grew up in their family system.

I am currently offering face to face appointments on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings. I offer appointments online through the platform Zoom on Mondays, and Friday afternoons.

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Clinical Supervision

I have completed my supervision training through the Counselling Tutor. This is a level 6 Clinical Supervision qualification which meets the professional standards for working face to face, online and telephone supervision. I am able to support students in their placements and qualified counsellors/psychotherapists. My focus is using the 7 eyed model of supervision along with my compassionate approach to offer a supportive space.

You are a human being who sits in the therapists chair to give so much support to others. I am here to offer you a much needed safe space to reflect on what happens in your client work, work space and within your own personal growth and professional development.

My fee is £65.00 for 1.5 hours of clinical supervision for qualified counsellors/psychotherapists
Reduced fee from £55.00 for 1.5 hours of clinical supervision for trainee counsellors/psychotherapists

About Me

Maggie Murray

I am an Accredited Professional Registrant member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

I am trained in Compassion Focused Therapy as part of my continued professional development, and I love continuously learning about how I can be more compassionate to myself and others who have a desire of taking care of themselves in this way too. I am a member of the Compassionate Mind Foundation and have a wonderful community of compassionate others who I continue to learn from.

My intention throughout the therapeutic relationship with my clients is to establish and maintain trust, mutual respect, and integrity from a real compassionate lens.

Areas of difficulties I can support clients with:

Are you feeling out of sorts/lost in life – join me in being curious, we can explore what is going for you in your life. This gives you an opportunity to develop deeper self-awareness and compassion to make healthy changes.

Are you struggling with..

Loss of identity

As we evolve as human beings’ major life stressors can impact our mental and physical health such as self-doubts in human connections, aging through life stages and losing loved ones can all impact our identity

Low self-worth

Do you have a negative view of yourself; have you got a loud self-critic part what dominates your thoughts?

This often stems from early life experiences where high expectations may have been felt and or harsh criticism was experienced.

Low mood

Is a temporary state of feeling sad, stuck or unhappy, it can often shift when you find ways to connect more meaningfully to self and others.

Depression

Is noticeably a stronger felt sense to low mood. You can struggle with taking care of your basic needs and struggle to complete simple tasks. It is a debilitating condition that feels persistent over a longer period and it is incredibly hard to feel enjoyment in the things you do often leading to feelings of hopelessness

Anxiety

A common feeling of being overwhelmed by pressure, uncertainty and fear. It can cause the mind and body to freeze (switch offline) or experience intense pain and discomfort.

Intrusive thoughts

These are often automatic thoughts that we wouldn’t choose to think. They are unwanted, distressing images or words that feel harmful, you may feel fearful of doing or not doing something and get into patterns of behaviours to prevent the intrusive thoughts becoming too intense.

Anger

Can be seen and felt as a negative behaviour, however expressing anger is a normal emotional response to feelings of unfairness, frustration or threats. When it becomes problematic is when it feels uncontrollable, or destructive to your mental health and your relationships.

Shame

Shame can feel a powerful self-conscious emotion centred belief often triggered by threats to one´s social character, a person can feel flawed, unworthy or bad when they experience criticisms, and rejections towards self and often from others.

Critical Self

Is a part of self that has a tenancy to evaluate one ‘self harshly. This can be learnt behaviour from childhood experiences or through unhealthy relationships and unrealistic expectations.

Fears

Every human being will feel fear from time to time as we are hard wired to protect ourselves because of the evolution of humans. We have a genetic predisposition to fear through our ancestors lived experiences and learnt behaviours in our family systems.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s)

Some people identify experiencing abuse, neglect, and dysfunctional family systems where domestic violence, substance misuse or parent’s absence cause long lasting emotional and physical health issues. Other times people can feel incredibly wounded when they learn of their ACE’s were not the ‘norm’ for everyone and that they really were harmed by their earlier lived experiences.

Bereavement

This is such a unique experience for everyone who experiences loss of someone they loved, a pet, an estranged family member, friend, colleague or neighbour. Often experiencing an intense period of grief which can be complex to work through without support from trusted people in their lives or professionals.

Infant Loss

Is a devastating experience for parents and families. The grief can feel unbearable leaving individuals feeling shocked, empty and angry. It’s so important to pay attention to the physical as well as the psychological healing from infant loss. Anxiety for future pregnancies, medical intervention and relationship challenges can be increasing difficult parts to process after infant loss.

Relational difficulties

Often comes from conflict and life changing events. It may include infidelity, financial stressors, addictive behaviours, trust issues or poor communication where an individual or individuals have difficulties in listening, get into argumentative patterns to defend themselves, or avoidant behaviours.

Work related stress

This can occur when high demands or unrealistic expectations are imposed on self or from others. Individual people can often tolerate high levels of work stress until other areas of their lives become problematic and then their emotional capacity is exceeded causing emotional burnout or compassionate fatigue.

Compassion Focused therapy and my pluralistic approach can offer support in all the areas above

Kind words, from kind people

Maggie has the most beautiful way of making you feel heard and at ease in session. Whether online or in person, Maggie ensures that there’s space to settle and acknowledge what’s happening for you as a human first.

The reflective practice for client work is always insightful, Maggie has a wealth of knowledge and always encourages me to be curious. Her support in gently unpicking therapeutic work is invaluable. Supervision is one of my favourite times of the month, a space to explore my practice, ethics and my own development within an incredibly compassionate space.

Maggie is bursting with compassion. Her warmth and kindness creates such an accepting space and genuine energy. Maggie helped me to find my own path and live more truly to me and my values.

I learnt more about myself, how to be kinder to myself, as well as how to respond to others and have better relationships with those important to me. Sessions with Maggie have been so significant to my self care and getting through many tough times. Thank you Maggie!

I selected Maggie as my supervisor due to her expertise in CFT and the warmth I felt from her during my initial consultation. I learnt a huge amount from Maggie as I began my private practice and felt supported at every turn.

Her knowledge, resources and encouraging attitude make her a great supervisor for anyone!”

I have been working with Maggie for a few years, and our sessions have become an invaluable part of my professional development.

She creates a safe and supportive space where I feel able to explore my client work openly, including the more challenging aspects. Her compassionate approach encourages deeper self-awareness and thoughtful reflection. Through her experience and insightful questioning, I have grown in confidence not only professionally but personally as well. I always leave our sessions feeling supported, heard, and better equipped in my practice'.

I have known Maggie for a number of years and have found her to be outstanding in her field. She has both a broad and in-depth knowledge of topics concerning mental health, stress and anxiety. This combined with her natural empathy and kindness enabled me to feel comfortable talking to her on a very personal level right from our first session.

Over the years her compassion and skill base has been invaluable to me as it has improved my mental health and given me excellent coping strategies to deal with low moods. Therefore without hesitation, I highly recommend Maggie to anyone seeking counselling /therapy.

A place we can
both connect

Room 24 Commerce House
Carlton Blvd, Lincoln, LN2 4WJ

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