Maya Vaughan Relationship Coach & Trauma Therapist

““My husband and I committed to working with Maya online over a period of several months. We can’t speak highly enough of her ability to hold a safe space for us to explore issues within our relationship and our marriage. Maya is incredibly professional and listens allowing each of us to have our voice and explore the tension and difficulties that can be experienced in any relationship especially an intimate one. This therapy with Maya is transforming our marriage and we are so delighted to have been working with her. Thank you so much Maya! ”

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Thanks again for all the help, guidance and tools you have given us Maya! I honestly feel closer to my partner than I have done in the whole 12 years that we have been together, which is something I couldn’t have imagined when we began our work with you. You’ve given us this amazing gift of understanding our conflict and - most importantly - to find healing within it.” ”

“Maya has managed to unlock a door I felt I had been banging on for years with no success. Her wonderful warm approach, her way of understanding how we both feel and her ability to help us understand each other, has been a game changer. Her sessions have helped us hugely and allowed us to see the depth of feelings that we still both have for each other. We now have huge optimism for the future. Thank you Maya we are so pleased we found you. ”

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My husband and I began working with Maya as our marriage was going a little bit off track. We had stopped communicating well or making the effort to spend time together and resentment was starting to build up. Our sessions with Maya were incredibly useful. She gave us the setting in which were both able to talk about how we felt in a calm and constructive way. I feel that the sessions have really transformed how I feel. I have gone from feeling sad and resentful a lot of the time to feeling much more content. ”

“Maya thank you so much for providing me with a safe space to talk about my marriage and to help remedy some ongoing deep issues. Your understanding of my marriage, your professionalism as a coach and your personal experience of building a robust relationship has helped me tremendously. I cannot thank you enough.
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“Maya is incredibly perceptive and attuned and quite frankly a miracle worker. I approached Maya as I felt desperate, angry and wanted out of my marriage. I had had enough of his difficult behaviour, or so I thought. After one session things completely turned around. Maya gave me the insight to understand how changing my own reactions and attitudes could elicit different responses from my partner. The effects were instant and the tension between us began to melt straight away. Within a few weeks of seeing Maya we had a fun, loving family holiday together. I still can’t quite believe the difference my sessions with Maya brought about.”

“‘When I first reached out to Maya, I was pretty desperate and felt it was a last ditch attempt to fix my failing relationship.
We had seen several other therapists in the past that hadn’t helped much. With Maya, we were met with a totally different approach. A warm, non judgemental woman who was open about herself - very rare i thought to have someone in this role to be so open about themselves. Her approach laid the ground for me and my partner to feel comfortable enough to open up. She just seemed to innately understand us and our ingrained negative behaviours that we needed to break free from. Maya held our hands through this difficult time to show us that another way was possible. Maya held a space for me to let out my anger, frustration, sadness and desperation without being phased at all. We dealt with many home truths and challenging issues during our sessions and through it we began to manage ourselves in a much better way. We still have stuff to work on and no doubt we will have more sessions in the future as and when we feel ready to tackle more, but, thanks to our work with Maya, we have now arrived at a place where, after 15 years of being together and 5 kids between us, we finally feel ready to get married! Thanks so much Maya! ”

“In just a few sessions with Maya, I had an array of practical, workable advice that has already improved my relationship with my husband. I had become pretty stuck in our marriage and it was draining us both, as we seemed to be locked in an environment of blame and intolerance. Talking with Maya allowed me to trial various techniques revolving around freeing both of us of blame and encouraging a more nurturing environment. Obviously it is more complex than I can write here, but what surprised me was how instantly effective her method is. I thoroughly recommend anyone in any kind of relationship to see Maya - I laughed and cried in equal measure, and my marriage has improved dramatically.”

“Our sessions with Maya have definitely made a difference in our marriage for the better. We can’t thank her enough for all her insights and help. We are so grateful to have found her and the life changing shifts we have made with her.”

“I cannot recommend Maya highly enough. She helped me literally save my marriage and make it a happy one, when I truly thought it was beyond saving. Maya has helped me more, and in a much shorter space of time, than anyone else I have seen (and I have tried a few!). She just innately ‘gets’ me, and she is compassionate, kind and understanding. I feel myself relax as soon as I book my next appointment!”

“After 3 years of couples counselling that did little to help us, Maya was a Game changer. She understood and nailed our dynamic within 5 mins on zoom, in the lockdown. My husband refused to speak to me for several months, and thanks to Maya we are able to speak again. I was blown away at how quickly she understood us both on a deep psychological level, and how held and supported we both felt. She was also the first therapist who my husband felt understood by, and helped me understand him which I was desperate to do, despite us trying so many different people and approaches. Maya has the gift of intuition and also the ability to translate what is going on for the other person in a non-judgemental and really helpful way. Thank you Maya!”

“Maya has an amazing intuition and ability to deeply understand the human condition - with all it’s many complexities! I arrived thinking my relationship with my partner was destined to fail but from our first session she understood me, and the situation that I was in. She was able to give me insight into myself and my relationship and I felt like she opened my eyes and gave me clarity. The best part for me was that she gave me really practical advice on how to change my negative behaviour and empowered me to come back to a loving place. I left feeling much more positive about my relationship than when I arrived, armed with new ways to make things better.”

“Maya has been a huge blessing for us and I cannot recommend her enough. Through her approach of getting to know us each individually before bringing us together we both felt comfortable with her, which created a positive platform for us to work on our relationship together. In this way and under her guidance, we have been able to change unhealthy patterns of relating that had become ingrained over the years. ”

“Maya gets to the nub of the matter quickly and with great power and integrity. She helped me clarify my feelings and become aware of how my behaviour and attitude towards my husband was impacting my marriage. Whilst some sessions were very emotional, they were also very practical with useful, simple tips that I could use to improve my marriage. Not only did my communication with my husband improve, I myself had more space internally for joy to bubble to the surface”

“Maya has guided me right to he heart of the matter, quite literally helped me to touch and open my heart so that we can, for the first time in our 25 years together be properly connected. Having tried couple counseling and then each of us doing five years of psychotherapy. A couple of months talking to Maya has had the biggest impact on our relationship. ”

“What mystified us is that we could love each other very much but yet we didn’t really agree on most things and life had become a series of battles. Maya enabled us to start properly seeing and hearing each other. The barriers and anger started to disappear revealing the amazing person I fell in love with 35 years earlier. We would have no doubt stayed together had we not worked with Maya but more out of duty or loyalty rather than romantic love. Thanks to Maya, however, the love is back and we are so delighted. ”

“My husband and I initially had individual sessions with Maya followed by joint sessions. We are eternally grateful to her for her wisdom and ability to see right through us to the root of the problem. My husband and I have had a few stressful years, for various external reasons, and this was taking a toll on our marriage. We were in a vicious cycle of blame, anger and arguments. In our individual sessions, Maya has hugely helped both of us see the role each of us has played in creating the dynamic in our marriage and provided us with very insightful tools to take responsibility for our respective roles and bring more compassion and empathy in our marriage. She has also really helped both of us see and focus on the the beauty and positive aspects of each other, rather than constantly focusing on the negatives that cause arguments. In our joint sessions, Maya has been very effective in drawing out how each of us is treating the other person and helping us see the impact our behaviour has on the other person. Her coaching has been invaluable to our marriage and has helped us understand ourselves better. We are eternally grateful!”

“Maya’s help with my relationship issues has been absolutely invaluable. She is an amazing listener and has the ability to pinpoint the deeper issues in a situation with laser-like precision. The combination of deep intuition, clarity and compassion that she offers is truly a rare gift. With Maya’s help I have come to see that if you address the root of a problem, you can make real positive changes in your life, take control of a situation and find hope and solutions where you hadn’t seen any before. I am deeply grateful for Maya’s support and couldn’t recommend her work more highly.”

“I would highly recommend Maya for her truthful, direct and insightful approach. Maya offers an original and hugely constructive take on relationships that has the potential to overcome ingrained resistance and help people achieve positive change.”

“Maya gets you thinking about conflict with a new perspective. She works to transform pain and anger into compassion and love and to shift your approach. She opens up the possibility for reconnection. Highly recommended.”

“Both my girlfriend and I saw Maya separately - as she prefers to work one on one. We both found her insights to be hugely valuable. She has amazing instincts about the challenges and common misunderstandings between men and women. She was able to translate for me what my girlfriend was trying to express. This helped me clarify a lot of confusion between us. Our communication has been much better since then. Sometimes we slip into old patterns of communication. We then usually schedule a session with Maya. We are very grateful to her for her wisdom and support and wish that we lived closer.”

“I went to Maya because my 15-year marriage was stuck in communication patterns that caused hurt and frustration on both sides. Even though my partner did not meet with Maya about this, I have been able to use her guidance to transform old patterns between us by changing my behaviour and adopting new language that is less accusatory and more understanding. Maya’s intuitive insights and compassion for both my own and my partner’s perspectives, along with her ability to hone in on the simple things I could do to transcend and completely bypass the frustrating conversations, have blown me away.
Highly recommended.”

“Maya has worked with me on several occasions to help improve relationships with which I have been struggling. Her communication is direct, yet gentle and nonjudgmental and she has the ability to get to the core of an issue quickly whilst still proceeding at a pace that feels comfortable. What I value most about Maya’s approach is that she restores a sense of agency and control, allowing one to see and find a way forward even when circumstances feel entrenched and insurmountable. She is a wise guide.”

“Maya has a vast knowledge and understanding of relationships. She has been a guide that has helped me become aware of the different communication styles and attitudes that can exist between two people – especially a man and a woman – and this awareness has helped me greatly in the on-going challenges I face in my relationship.”