The testimonies will be grouped by type of service or type of therapy (e.g. assessment, therapy e.g. Brainspotting, CBT, CFT, IFS, ACT and so on or type of a problem e.g. therapy for trauma, therapy for social anxiety, therapy for OCD etc) and also type of clients: students, professionals, performing artists, doctors, neurodivergent clients etc
Through EMDR and brain spotting with Maja, I have felt a huge positive shift in just a few sessions. She has helped me to process significant traumatic experiences in a creative and safe enough way, as well as supporting me to trust myself along the journey. I appreciated the focus on post traumatic growth and I no longer feel defined by the trauma I have experienced. I am extremely grateful for the experience and would highly recommend Maja.
I came to Maja in a desperate and traumatised state: crying in uncontrollable fits due to the terror I felt about my bodily state.
I was amidst the wreckage of the darkest period in my life to date, concerning illness. A few months prior, I had entered into a relationship with an unaware and unscrupulous alternative health practitioner, who had prescribed me so many supplements without truly understanding the nature of my (now formally diagnosed) condition, that I experienced an extraordinarily distressing flare, like no other before.
Maja’s rare gift is the ability to rapidly produce extremely clear and useful threads of thought for her clients to visualise, grasp onto and eventually practically use in order to get on the path to recovery. I owe my current state of much better health to various things, including a diagnosis, and conventional anti-inflammatory medication, but also in large part to Maja’s scientifically informed insight into why I was experiencing symptoms in such a violent and distressing way, and how the way I perceived the symptoms could influence their severity.
Although medication is often very beneficial for the treatment of chronic health conditions, it is rarely the whole story in terms of reaching a state of peace and balance in the body and mind. I constantly marvel at how much the techniques and lines of reasoning provided by Maja can calm both my symptoms and deep unease concerning the future of my bodily health (each influences the other, of course)!
Her voice resounds in my head when I am edging towards a fearful state, and I am able to pull myself into a brighter place. I owe my new found courageous state to her guidance and careful, intelligent reasoning in the face of complex networks of fear.
I am extremely fortunate to have found a therapist such as Maja in this time of my life because I could have so easily stumbled across someone far less knowledgeable of my kind of experience. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is experiencing strange, medically unexplained symptoms including those of MCAS, ME/CFS and related disorders. Medication and a diagnosis may well be one part of the puzzle, but so are the techniques offered by those in the know of what is really happening in the brain when experiencing symptoms of these debilitating conditions.
Learning with Maja that the brain plays such a significant role in these debilitating symptoms, and that I have the power to influence how these symptoms show up in my body was one of the essential keys to my recovery.
Please note this testimonial was sent to Walking with the Wounded – a charity that provides support for veterans that asked Maja to provide therapy for trauma/ complex bereavement for this client (the testimonial is used with permission from the client and the charity)
I would like to start with saying that I own a debt of gratitude for the help that your organization gave me in my time of need.
I was struggling badly after the death of my sister and felt on the edge of breaking down almost daily.
I reached out to my doctor. Who when they found out that I was a veteran, gave me priority access to mental health services.
I was assessed to have mild to moderate PTSD due to my experiences in Northern Ireland in the early 70’s.
You arranged for me to see Maja Jankowska for a 10-week course of therapy. I am writing to you to thank you from the bottom of my heart for directing me to her. Maja immediately put me at ease. She worked through my problems with me and gave me various coping mechanisms and helped me work though my problems and challenged some of my hang ups. Initially I was hesitant about attending, but as time went by I started to look forward to the sessions. I now feel like a normal person again, and was able to deal with the 1st anniversary of her death with no major problems.
Thank you all so much for your help in my time of crisis.