Luana Maki

Luana Maki is a counsellor who works with people feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. Luana uses an integrative style and adapts sessions to each person's needs, helping them untangle difficulties like stress, low mood, or relationship strain.

Luana draws on a mix of approaches rather than a single method. Sessions focus on listening, understanding life history, and noticing how feelings, behaviour and the body connect. That mix helps when people are dealing with trauma, grief, or the fallout from separation and major life changes.

Sessions are practical and conversational. Luana helps people spot small changes that make a difference, set manageable goals, and build new ways of coping. Work can include looking at attachment patterns, managing ADHD-related overwhelm, and addressing intimacy or body-image concerns.

Client-centred listening is paired with mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to notice repeated patterns. Solution-focused steps are used when clients want clear, time-limited strategies for immediate problems. This combination is chosen to match what each person needs in the moment.

Luana has three years of practice and is BACP registered, which is shown as BACP. They work from the United Kingdom and offer sessions in English. People are invited to approach counselling as a collaborative process, where pace and focus are agreed together.

How Luana's approaches work in online therapy

Luana blends client-centred work with mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to support people remotely. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's pace so they feel understood and can explore issues safely. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help manage anxiety, stress and overwhelming emotions. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at repeated patterns and early relationships to understand why certain reactions keep coming up and can help with long-standing difficulties such as attachment or repeated relationship problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Luana will discuss what feels useful and adapt methods over time. The therapist collaborates with each person to set goals and chooses techniques that match their needs, preferences and day-to-day realities.

Confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, as specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make scheduling easier and help sessions fit around family, study or employment. It can also allow shorter check-ins when needed, or options that reduce travel and make regular attendance simpler. Registered or accredited professionals can offer effective therapeutic support this way, and Luana will help decide what suits each person best.