Therapists
Hi, I'm Maxime. I hope, when people come to me, they feel hope. The body wants to heal but it needs the support to do so. So the core of this work is all about creating safety and support that can really be felt and recognised. Things started catalysing through me through complex trauma. A lot of drastic life changes happened suddenly and catapulted me into a spiritual awakening and a journey of finding the support I needed. Originally from Botswana, I live in Sussex with my dog, Baloo, and run adventures and retreats re-wilding women with Wild Joy and a beautiful women's circle called The Hearth. I am a trained in Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing with The Embody Lab, a certified coach with MOE Foundation, trained nature connection facilitator with Change in Nature and have a first class BA in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute. I've completed an Internal Family Systems Development program with the One Self Institute, worked on year-long ancestral Old Way immersion with WildWise and with artists and the Maasai on Studio Verde's Co-Existence AIR about preserving indigenous wisdom. At my core, I want to help people realise their own belonging and to be who they are are beyond all the layers of conditioning... to be free.
My therapeutic lens is informed by coaching, somatics and parts work. Coaching is rooted in empowerment as the client is centred in their own experience, which is healing and transformative, particularly through a trauma-informed lens. Somatics understands that healing happens in the body, which is also empowering as no one knows any body better than themselves. Because healing happens in the body, it can be instant and transformative - i.e. we don't need to understand it, we just need to feel it. Somatics is also integrative as it works on many relational aspects at the same time, e.g your relationship to yourself, others and the world. Parts work is an incredible framework which sees us as not singular but a myriad of selves, all reflecting reflect different parts of our whole. Rather than being afraid of our 'demons', this framework understands that every part of us is trying its best, but they need compassionate integration to teach us their powerful lessons.
I was brought up in Africa and educated in the UK. During the cusp of my 20s/30s I went through a long and painful transformation where my life seemed to fall apart in every area. I experienced depression, anxiety and complex trauma on one hand, and on the other I perceive this as an empowering process of self awakening. I believe the healing truth within my personal story is in embracing the discernment and courage needed to trust. We all have darkness in our fears and the conditioning that tells us we must be a certain way in order to be acceptable. I didn't believe I was enough. When we can discern what is coming from outside ourselves and what is our inner truth, we awaken to our potential, holding space for the miraculous.
Henfield, Hove, Brighton