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Welcome.
Welcome.
If you're feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed, feel different because of your culture, disability, or sexuality and, are dealing with ADHD or autism—whether diagnosed or self-identified, I can help.
I specialise in helping people from diverse backgrounds who are also neurodivergent, offering you a safe space to navigate your unique challenges through existential therapy. I also specialise in couples therapy for interracial couples or individuals in cross-cultural or neurologically mixed relationships, helping them navigate the complexities of differences and communication.
CLIENTS SAY
CLIENTS SAY
"Your support and gentle guidance has had such a remarkable impact on me and will stay with me forever"
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Former Client
"I have learnt so much and truly admire how effortlessly you were able to be everything I needed and more. I felt heard and seen. Thank you. I will miss our sessions and I will miss you dearly"
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Former Client
"Words aren't enough to express the positive impact these sessions have had on my life"
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Former Client
"You have been the most patient, kind, gentle soul I've encountered in a long time"
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HOW CAN BUKKY HELP YOU
HOW CAN BUKKY HELP YOU
You don’t have to be falling apart to need therapy.
You don’t have to be falling apart to need therapy.
But if you are — that’s okay too.
I work with adults who feel different. Outsiders. Overthinkers. Deep feelers. People navigating the complexity of being human in a world that often demands you fit neatly into boxes.
Maybe you’re neurodivergent.
Maybe you’re grieving.
Maybe you’ve spent a lifetime shape-shifting to belong — across cultures, careers, relationships, or identities.
Or maybe you’re the high-functioning one.
The one who looks fine — but feels anything but.
Whatever brings you here, this is your invitation to pause. To exhale. To be seen. To be supported.
PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES
PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES
You’re in the right place if…
You’re in the right place if…
✓ You’re neurodivergent (or suspect you might be) and want support that honours your lived experience.
✓ You’re processing grief, loss, or a painful chapter.
✓ You’re living with high-functioning anxiety, and burnout is knocking on your door.
✓ You’re tired of performing and ready to get real — with yourself, your relationships, your work.
✓ You’re a professional, executive or leader who is emotionally exhausted, even if no one else sees it.
✓ You’re navigating a big transition — grief, identity, motherhood, aging, career change.
✓ You’ve experienced trauma or systemic oppression and want a safe space to be all of who you are.
✓ You feel stuck and want a way forward—not just more coping strategies.
✓ You want to live more intentionally, more truthfully — and with a bit more softness too.
✓ You’re craving more meaning, connection, and peace in your life.
I’ve supported clients through anxiety, depression, grief (including bereavement by suicide), imposter syndrome, trauma, identity work, career crossroads, and deep emotional overwhelm. I also work with people exploring meaning, intuition, creative blocks, spiritual longing, and how to be in a world that never stops doing.
I bring my expertise in:
Relationship Issues
Relationship Issues
- Relationship issues & break-ups
- Dating blocks & confidence
- Emotional intelligence
- Spirituality
- Parents
- Family
- Friendships
- Anger management
- Cultural issues
- Boundaries & people-pleasing
- Adoption
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and Depression
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Isolation
- Loneliness
- Alienation
- Emptiness
- Limiting beliefs
- Addictions & bad habits
- Identity problems
- Self-esteem & confidence
Truama and PTSD
Truama and PTSD
- Trauma
- Shame
- Physical abuse
- Bullying
- Stress
- Post-traumatic stress
- Race and Ethnicity
- Gender and Sexuality
- Class
- Religion
- Miscarriage
- Fertility
Career and Life Transitions
Career and Life Transitions
- Mid-life crisis
- Employment difficulties
- Personal goals
- Resilience and stress management
- Work-life balance & well-being
- Entrepreneurship
- Meaning
- Faith
- Workplace Counselling
- Equality/ Discrimination Issues
- Life purpose & career direction
- Procrastination & perfectionism
WHY BUKKY
WHY BUKKY
The official line?
The official line?
I’m a qualified psychotherapist with a Master’s degree from Regent’s, University London, fully insured, and registered with the BACP. I’ve worked in the NHS, the Priory, and now run a private practice supporting individuals and groups from around the world. I use an integrative approach grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, and psychotherapeutic theory—but I also draw on the wisdom of Eastern philosophy, existential analysis, and intuition.
Before becoming a therapist, I was a corporate lawyer for over a decade. I worked in Magic Circle firms and later as General Counsel in tech and brand giants. I know what high pressure feels like. I also know how lonely success can be. That’s why I don’t just bring theory—I bring lived experience.
The real line?
The real line?
I believe therapy is one of the last places where we get to be fully, unapologetically human. Where you can scream, cry, swear, sit in silence—or just breathe. No performance. No mask. Just you, exactly as you are.
I create curious, nurturing spaces for exploration and healing. I work with people who are tired of just “coping” and are ready to live. Really live—with clarity, intention, courage, and some softness too.
I believe:
✓ You don’t need to be broken to need support.
✓ Vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom.
✓ What we practice, grows.
✓ High-functioning anxiety is still anxiety.
✓ Healing isn’t linear, but it’s worth it.
I’m not a passive therapist. I’ll hold you with warmth, but I’ll also gently challenge you. I believe in deep, grounded change—the kind that shows up in how you show up in your own life. I work with people who are ready to get curious, go deep, and come home to themselves.
MY CLIENTS CHOOSE ME BECAUSE:
MY CLIENTS CHOOSE ME BECAUSE:
I am a registered professional.
I am a registered professional.
✓ Fully insured
✓ Registered and holds membership with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and abides by its code of ethics (accredited registration number 403730)
✓ Receiving regular supervision
✓ Has years of experience working in places like the Priory Hospital and NHS counselling services, and runs her own therapy practice for individuals and groups
✓ Has lots of experience mentoring and volunteering with vulnerable communities
I am knowledgeable and highly-trained.
I am knowledgeable and highly-trained.
✓ Highly trained in the latest mental health practices
✓ Has a Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent’s University
✓ Has a Master's degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's University London, UK (accredited, postgraduate-level)
✓ Specialises in common mental health problems (Depression, GAD, Social Anxiety, OCD, Panic, Phobias, PTSD, Health Anxiety) as well as uncommon areas such as Bereavement (particularly by Suicide) as well as less common areas like bereavement and intuition
✓ Adopts an integrated therapeutic approach that relies on neuroscience, attachment theory, and neuro-linguistic programming, whilst also drawing wisdom from spirituality, existential analysis and philosophy
I create a safe, nurturing space for exploration and healing.
I create a safe, nurturing space for exploration and healing.
✓ Believes in openness, honesty, trust and humour
✓ Has a flexible and open-minded approach
✓ Thinks it's important to embrace each others 'madness' and explore our differences
✓ Believes in the incredible powers of therapy to repair souls, expand minds, and lead to important insights
✓ Has an approach is grounded in the belief that healing comes from within, and that each person has the capacity to grow, change, and thrive
✓ Acknowledges that distress and suffering are an understandable response to a traumatising world and offers you a non-judgmental, safe space to talk, scream, shout, swear, break down, rebuild yourself or simply just be
I have experience supporting diverse identities and backgrounds.
I have experience supporting diverse identities and backgrounds.
✓ Was a commercial lawyer for over a decade before becoming a therapist and understands the unique challenges to your mental health that come with a demanding career
✓ Worked within high-pressured, hyper-competitive environments, first for a Magic Circle law firm, and then for many years as a General Counsel in tech and brand giants
✓ Has worked with people from diverse backgrounds and communities (including with BAME clients, the racialised and the marginalised)
I actively engage in your therapeutic journey.
I actively engage in your therapeutic journey.
✓ I recognise life as cycles of repetition and practice. And believe importantly that, what we practice, grows. I am not a passive therapist in your journey of self-discovery.
✓ I am here to provide gentle accountability throughout your therapy and to actively support you to live a more enriching life filled with daily practices of embodiment, noticing, compassion, art, rest, play, radical acceptance, letting go, laughter, honesty, and much more.
I use evidence-based techniques.
I use evidence-based techniques.
✓ I understand the demands of modern life and offer innovative techniques from some of the most recent, data-led therapeutic models (such as attachment theory, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based approaches) in order to help you navigate life's complexities and achieve lasting positive change.
I blend art and science to deliver you optimal results.
I blend art and science to deliver you optimal results.
✓ I blend art and science in a unique and integrated approach to deliver you optimal results. I combine the latest evidence-based techniques, with wisdom from age-old Eastern philosophy, Jungian psychology and existential analysis. I also continue to seek learning outside of what is institutionalised and deemed legitimate by academia, to ensure I offer you a complete experience on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level.
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KEY RESULTS
KEY RESULTS
What clients say they get from therapy with me
What clients say they get from therapy with me
Therapy isn’t just about “fixing” what’s wrong. It’s about creating space for what’s true, what’s possible, and what’s deeply you. I walk beside my clients as they:
✓ Access practical support.
✓ Access practical support.
I can support you with simple and effective therapeutic techniques — practical exercises selected to help you gain clarity, calm and confidence, and take your growth out of the theoretical world and into real life.
✓ Discover new possibilities.
✓ Discover new possibilities.
Get the expert help and gentle accountability you need to let go of behaviours that do not serve you, better understand your individual needs and cultivate new ways of being.
✓ Gain career insights.
✓ Gain career insights.
My uniquely intuitive and holistic package of support is designed to help you feel calmer, more confident, and 'good enough' in your role at work and at home.
✓ Thrive in relationships.
✓ Thrive in relationships.
I invite you to see how you fit with others in your world, own who you are in these dynamics and take agency of your life and your relationships. I can support you in gaining understanding and finding meaning in your experiences with others.
✓ Discover therapy tailored, to their needs.
✓ Discover therapy tailored, to their needs.
Whether you're new to therapy or you've been before, I aim to meet you where you are. I believe there is no single path in your therapy, and encourage your uniquely personal and non-linear growth to emerge.
✓ Explore traumas and histories of oppression.
✓ Explore traumas and histories of oppression.
I recognise the structures and conditions that induce distress and suffering in this world, and so am particularly interested in supporting you to take up space and find your voice, where you are a racialised and/or marginalised person.
✓ Tackle imposter syndrome.
✓ Tackle imposter syndrome.
I have worked with women, in particular, as they transition into senior roles and have supported them to overcome the unconscious internal conflicts which impede their progress, come into their own peace and feel easier with their professional success and visibility.
✓ Get free from high-functioning anxiety.
✓ Get free from high-functioning anxiety.
I work with high-achieving people, helping them break free from high-functioning anxiety, overwhelm and self-doubt.
✓ Experience judgment-free therapy.
✓ Experience judgment-free therapy.
I invite you to bring your most authentic self to be seen and heard without judgement.
✓ Feel good enough.
✓ Feel good enough.
I can support you with rest, mindfulness, feeling emotionally attuned, and developing a more loving self-dialogue.
✓ Explore vulnerability.
✓ Explore vulnerability.
My aim is to support you in developing the lost art of imperfection and nurture your softness and vulnerability.
✓ Find a safe space.
✓ Find a safe space.
I offer a safe space to look inward, to think more deeply, and to deal with all the complex emotions that come with existing.
✓ Maximise potential.
✓ Maximise potential.
Counselling and therapy is not only for those with serious mental health problems. They are powerfully effective and impactful ways to maximise personal potential and to develop and maintain a healthy emotional life in an increasingly stressful world of personal and professional pressures.
✓ Unleash creativity.
✓ Unleash creativity.
I am committed to supporting you to resolve any issues of stifled creativity, over-critical self-image, and spiralling work/life balance.
✓ Find direction, a plan, a way forward.
✓ Find direction, a plan, a way forward.
The thought-provoking exercises aim to leave you stepping readily into your own sense of direction, connection and belonging in the world.
✓ Be 'happier'.
✓ Be 'happier'.
I help you find your own peace, be less worried, and better adjusted.
✓ Get unstuck.
✓ Get unstuck.
I create curious, explorative spaces, so you can get unstuck, dream big, delve deep and embrace who you truly are.
✓ Find balance.
✓ Find balance.
I work with clients in high-pressurised careers to consider the powerful impact that their career choices and self-imposed expectations, have on every aspect of their lives, happiness and general well-being.
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The bottom line?
The bottom line?
You are not too much.
You are not too sensitive.
You are not too late.
You’re human. You’re healing. You’re doing the best you can.
And there is more available to you.
More clarity. More connection. More ease.
Let’s begin — together.
FAQ's
FAQ's
What is psychotherapy?
What is psychotherapy?
Therapy helps you feel better about your memories and experiences.
Counselling and Psychotherapy provide a pathway toward understanding your experiences and finding strategies that work uniquely for you. Therapy doesn't erase memories or experiences, but it can help you feel better about them. It's a way to feel calmer and understand things better. It's a process that, for many, leads to a greater sense of peace, understanding, and resolution. Sometimes, just talking about your thoughts can make you feel lighter. For deeper issues or long-lasting impacts, therapy can help you unravel patterns, understand their roots, and pave the way for new, healthier ways of living.
How much does therapy cost?
How much does therapy cost?
Exceptional care. Profound transformation.
Online sessions: £75 per session – discreet, flexible, and designed to bring world-class support directly to you, wherever you are.
In-person sessions (couples & families): £150 per session – offered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, or in select cities during my travels, providing an exclusive opportunity for face-to-face work.
This is more than therapy. It’s a curated experience — a private, transformative space to invest in the most important asset you have: your relationships and your wellbeing.
How long does therapy typically last?
How long does therapy typically last?
Therapy doesn't have a set time. Most people have 8-12 sessions, but we'll figure out what's best for you.
Therapy's like a good book—it's different for everyone! We usually meet for 50 minutes every week. Some people feel better after a few sessions, while others need therapy for a year or more. You can end therapy whenever you feel ready. It's up to you!
Typically, I recommend an initial block of 6 weekly sessions. Then you can decide if you need more. However, you're always in charge of your therapy, and I aim to take your lead on what you want.
What happens in the first session?
What happens in the first session?
We'll introduce ourselves to each other.
The first session is mostly about getting to know each other better. I ask you questions, discovers what you need, and tell you more about how I aim to help people. We'll figure out together how to make our sessions helpful for you.
It's also important for you to feel comfortable with me. Studies show that feeling a strong connection with your therapist leads to more positive outcomes for you. This first session lets you see if you feel a connection.
How does Bukky help you?
How does Bukky help you?
I use different ways to help you and make my techniques fit your needs.
I work integratively, which means I blend different techniques, including principally Existential Therapy, but also Person Centred Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and other tailored methods to cater to your individual needs. It's about finding what resonates best with you and crafting a supportive approach that suits your journey towards healing.
I am a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and adhere to their Ethical Framework. I hold professional liability insurance for her work.
I have a wide range of experience with clients from a variety of backgrounds, having worked within the NHS as a Psychotherapist and in several private clinics, including The Priory Hospital Roehampton. I currently offer private therapy in person at centres in Kingston.
Please feel free to phone or email me with any questions you may have. I can offer a 20 minute telephone call to see how you might work together.
Does therapy work?
Does therapy work?
Yes, counselling and psychotherapy are types of talk therapy that are evidence-based.
Counselling and Psychotherapy can be incredibly effective for many people. The goal is to create a safe, supportive space where you can explore your thoughts and emotions. All of the approaches I incorporate in my therapy practice are evidence-based and are endorsed by the NHS NICE guidelines for clinical excellence.
How do I get started?
How do I get started?
Simply get in touch.
To set up your first appointment, contact me. You can say hi on Whatsapp or email me at BukkyMaybank@gmail.com.
Let me know your preferred time and day for an initial session, and I can give you a call to confirm.
Your first appointment comes with no obligation to continue working with me. During this session, you can tell me what you're struggling with, and I can talk to you about how to help. After that, it's up to you if you want more sessions.
How can I reach you for more information?
How can I reach you for more information?
Still not sure? Just want to chat?
Say hello on Whatsapp or email BukkyMaybank@gmail.com with a brief outline of why you are seeking therapy, and your availability for an initial session. You can also call +44 (0) 7803 368023 to arrange your free 📞 20-minute consultation with me.
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