Max Marnau

Max Marnau is a person-centred therapist, artist and poet living in the Scottish Borders. As the autistic daughter of refugees from Hitler's Nazis, she feels a particular affinity with all the exiled, the othered and the displaced. Her special interest is Gaelic language, poetry, and music. Circumstances made it possible for her to train as a counsellor in late middle age, having previously volunteered for Samaritans and Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland, and that was where she immediately found her niche.

Since qualifying, she has worked for various charities, for a university counselling service and, since 2013, in private practice. Since discovering that she is autistic, she has branched out into training, writing and, for her the most important of all after her work as a therapist, the foundation of the international online peer group Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists, which now has some 1500 members.