Counsellor and Therapist Mia Malama

My experience with CBT and Mia was great. Mia made me feel comfortable and safe with dealing with my problems. Furthermore, I felt like she really listened to me and had the knowledge and capability to help me. Hence, I can recommend her to anyone. As for the CBT approach, each of our session thought me something new and soothed me. Even at the worst times the session made me feel better. I also feel like my mentality has shifted a lot and that I am able to deal with my problems better.

You showed me another way of living, the strength to keep on going and hope when I was down. I am so grateful for meeting you and for working with you. I feel so much better about dealing with my own problems and I am so happy about that.

Thank you so much!

I completed REBT and CBT therapy with Mia to begin with and the results have been life changing.

Truly understanding how to adopt healthy thought patterns and processing techniques has helped me through some horrific emotional and mental experiences and improved my self worth and self belief beyond measure.

Safe to say I have never been able to achieve these mindset changes previously and have struggled with safe esteem and self worth issues for my whole life.

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It is evident that Mia has extensive experience in CBT interventions. She is not just confident in her own knowledge, but she is also confident in the other person's abilities to overcome their difficulties. This provides an atmosphere of trust and support.

I already recommend her to two of my close friends.

I came across Mia and her services at a point in my life when I really needed someone to talk to and ventilate my thoughts. She is a warm and approachable person who sincerely wants to help her clients develop and move forward.

In a nutshell, over the course of our therapy, you have provided me with some much-needed hope, self-acceptance and understanding of myself.

I have already recommended you to a couple of my friends and so would definitely recommend you to others as well.

I have also explored hypnotherapy with Mia and in one hypnotherapy session have been able to master a 16 year addiction.

I was surprised how different hypnotherapy was from my initial expectations – it is both led by me and performed on an entirely conscious level. Totally different to the perceptions I had about hypnotherapy that centred on someone taking control of my mind. It's just not like the movies!!

Empathetic, incredible listener, very caring, approachable, non- judgemental, fair and firm, focus on self-worth and healthy and unhealthy patterns was very enlightening. Kind and compassionate and I feel as if you actually care about my wellbeing and have my best interests at heart.

I am so grateful for Mia and all of the help and guidance she gave me. Mia was always extremely patient with me as I articulated my thoughts and feelings and always responded with compassion and wisdom. I would highly recommend working with Mia for anyone needing help with OCD, anxiety and depression.

The homework was extremely helpful and unique to some other therapists. I really appreciated the readings I was given and the support that this gave me throughout the week. Mia helped me to understand my OCD better and to make sense of the emotions and feelings that it would bring up and she never made me feel judged or embarrassed about the things I shared.

On the first meeting you gave me a clear overview of what to expect. Throughout the process I felt that your care was genuine and your listening very focused. From your comments I could see that you spent time between the sessions to reflect not only the relevant next reading but also on what was discussed during the sessions. You were able to provide me with alternative perspectives that helped me to change my thinking. Finally, you were flexible in times I needed to make changes to our meeting times, which was very helpful.

The process was very successful - I was able to change eating habits that were harmful and feel equipped with tools for keeping to the healthy eating in the future.

Kind, considerate, brilliant and very helpful. Provided useful tools to deal with the problems I was going through. Thank you very much, you have helped me enormously through a very difficult time and gave me a fresh outlook when I was depressed.

I had a safe feeling throughout the process and it was easy to talk with Mia. The methods and themes we used felt relevant to me and I got many tools to better handle my issues and know what to concretely do in situations that previously made me anxious or feel hopeless.

I was really happy with our sessions, and I can’t really think of anything that I think would have improved them.

I really valued the structure of the sessions – my previous therapy has always felt quite wishy washy, and has never felt like it was leading somewhere. This felt like I was really working towards developing the tools to help me move forward.

You are warm and a very good listener. I felt you understood me very well. I have received so much from these sessions. and I feel gratitude for that.

Mia is an empathic, experienced therapist well-versed in the REBT approach. Working together remotely in bi-weekly sessions, I made real progress working through some of my limiting and unhealthy beliefs and thought patterns. Welcoming, approachable and an astute analyst of emotions, I quickly trust Mia and felt able to work independently using reflection tools she gave me and fruitfully review this in our sessions. I would recommend Mia to anyone interested in the REBT approach.

I felt very listened to and like I could talk about anything with you. You had knowledge and helpful answers on a variety of topic. You were also incredibly instrumental in providing me with tools to manage and reducing my relationship anxiety. Additionally, I enjoyed the homework readings – and found this very useful.

Always  she has been available. She gave enough reassurance to understand that everything was going to be fine even when I have not seen the light.

Mia clearly explained CBT/REBT from the beginning and gave me some
reading material that helped me to understand this approach even more. I
have not had this approach in therapy before so I was a little nervous but it
quickly became clear that this approach was perfect for me and my logical
brain! Mia is warm and supportive whilst gently guiding me and asking me
relevant questions to help me understand the challenges I was experiencing.

Mia is very thoughtful in her use of words and how she explains things and
makes suggestions. This made me feel so much more comfortable with her as
my therapist. I would highly recommend Mia as she also helped me to focus
on overall goals, but with small and achievable steps and goals along the way.

I've become much better at de-escalating my anxious and depressive states and my sleep improved dramatically to the point I no longer consider insomnia (something I have been dealing with periodically for 20 years) an issue. Mia has been so kind, patient and insightful throughout the entire process and I would thoroughly recommend her to anybody."