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Max Eames is a Senior Lecturer, Course Leader and Director of a university-based wellbeing and psychological services centre. He grew up in California but settled in the UK. His varied career has included work as a chartered architect and restaurateur. A London-based psychotherapist and executive coach, he facilitates long-lasting personal transformations for those who recognise the need to challenge both self-defeating behaviours and self-limiting beliefs.
Max Eames is a Senior Lecturer, Course Leader and Director of a university-based wellbeing and psychological services centre. He grew up in California but settled in the UK after completing an honours degree in Florence, Italy. His varied career has included work as a chartered architect, restaurateur, and business turnaround consultant. A London-based psychotherapist and executive coach, Max facilitates long-lasting personal transformations for those who recognise the need to challenge both self-defeating behaviours and self-limiting beliefs. His Harley Street practice is augmented by an international client-base which reaches Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America. His co-presented ‘Lonely at the Top’ workshop draws heavily on his experience of entrepreneurs and business leaders achieve higher results and gain personal insights. Max is only too aware that it is not the situations we find ourselves in, but the ways in which we react and respond to them. This holds true whether his clients and students are struggling with self-belief, with anxiety, or with perfectionism. His collaborative, results-oriented and hands-on approach helps those from all walks of life to discover breakthrough strategies and a brand-new life they love. As an experienced practitioner and academic, it is also Max’s privilege to supervise a number of clients in either counselling, psychotherapy, or coaching – either individually, in small groups, or by means of NHS-affiliated consultancy contracts. Max is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the PgCert in Strengths-Based Approaches in CBT. his teaching interrogates the boundaries between psychotherapy and coaching psychology. As a workshop presenter for both undergraduate and postgraduate training, he also maintains weekly clinical supervision in group settings for postgraduate students preparing to serve their communities in the field of mental health. The primary focus of Max's clinical and research interests is that of understanding the role of avoidant cognitive/behavioural strategies in information-processing and emotional disorders. In particular, his clinical work permits a practice-based enquiry into the threat-related processing biases generally associated with anxiety, and with obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.
Max’s approach draws heavily on the philosophy and principles of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and in particular the principles which combine positive psychology and cognitive theory; the strengths-based approaches which are grounded in CBT’s action-oriented approach.
Each of us has a set of everyday personal strengths which we play down or perhaps don't even notice because they seem ordinary, ho-hum and of little consequence. Resilience is our ability to stay present to and recover from life's difficulties and challenges. It includes our capacity to make the best of an unwanted situation, and to cope with the stress associated with finding the strength to do so.
Research indicates that resilience-building efforts can improve both individual and interpersonal wellbeing, all whilst lessening the risk of moods such as depression and anxiety.
You'll use these and other insights to discover and experience the fundamentals of engendering much more in the way of curiosity and resilience in the way you relate to yourself and others. Max’s approach is one of a strong commitment to helping you acquire the knowledge and skills required to do so in the context of various personal and professional activities. Max’s focus, however, is on ensuring that you have the skills and understanding of the ‘process’ of psychological support – such that you are able to maintain your therapeutic gains and apply them to multiple situations and circumstances, in a way that is sustainable over the longer stretch.
What’s more, typically you will take the skills and knowledge gained into your communities and your workplace, encouraging others to grow and develop whilst they witness you doing the same.
Max works with adults, children, and young people. He often augments the benefit of his consultations with the use of ‘bibliotherapy’, in which a carefully curated selection of workbooks serves to ‘stack’ the learning made in sessions. This ensures maximum value to his clients, and it offers a very real opportunity to continue the process of psychological ‘stretch’ between sessions.
Anxiety
Obsessive-compulsive symptomatology
Peak performance
Personal effectiveness
Interpersonal communication
Whilst Max considers psychological support to be an investment, and an important one, he is only too aware that access to such support is not within the reach of everyone. As such, his online work is an opportunity to save considerably on per-session fees, and there is some scope for concessionary rates to those who apply for support whilst students, pensioners, and the like. These are considered on a case-by-case basis
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