Hi! I’m Maggie Whitbread,
the Awefull Therapist herself.
I’m glad you’re here!

I’m a qualified and registered counsellor based in Canberra.
I look forward to embarking on this journey with you!

My priority is always making sure you feel safe and comfortable in your sessions with me, helping you to find the techniques that work best for YOU, and helping to get you past the point of surviving, and to start thriving. I am so pleased to be working with a diverse range of clients with different therapeutic needs, backgrounds, genders/expressions, ages, sexualities, lifestyles and neurodivergence.

Therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all.
I have my own history with anxiety and feeling stuck/lost and burntout in life. I have struggled with showing up authentically as myself, instead struggling with perfectionism, people-pleasing and low self-esteem. I have had the experience of searching for a therapist that feels like the right fit (and instead found several that weren’t). I’ve had the experience of trying an approach/strategy and having it not work for me and then feeling hopeless or like a failure. Many times, I’ve wondered why things seem to ‘just work’ for others, while they didn’t for me.
With a combination of finding the right help, following my own path to healing and empowerment, trusting my gut and ‘doing the work’, I now live wholeheartedly, in a life I truly love.
And now I’m helping people just like you, to find the same thing- an awe-full life.

I have been counselling in Canberra since early 2024. I completed my Bachelor of Counselling at Griffith University on the Gold Coast in 2023, and shortly after, I moved back home to Canberra with my partner, where we have since welcomed a wonderful little daughter. When I’m not in session, I’m enjoying the very best of Canberra’s foodie scene, exploring local markets, reading questionable fantasy romances, going on walks with my family, watercolour painting, and escaping to the South Coast for a dose of ocean air whenever I get the chance.