This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I’m Mark (he/they). I’m a qualified counsellor with a wide range of knowledge and experience, and I believe in self-determination and empowerment, because when you are more able and confident in yourself, you can get so much more out of life. When we feel freer of those feelings of anxiety, fear, anger, frustration and despair, they don’t hold us back so much and we can even make them work for us.
I am qualified with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, and my work and lived experience has been around anxiety, LGBTQ+ themes, neurodiversity like ADHD (whether or not diagnosed), grief and loss, family and school trauma. My main training is in relational counselling - Petruska Clarkson’s 5 relationship model - and I primarily use a person-centred approach to build a trusting therapeutic alliance, so that the counselling can be effective.
The first step is a 20-30 minute consultation so that you can say a little about what you would like to explore in counselling; it will also give both of us an initial sense if we could work together.
Sessions are 50 minutes long, and whilst I’d recommend that these take place weekly, I appreciate that you might want more flexibility.
I am currently taking new clients in person in Battersea and Hove, as well as Zoom.
I'm also BACP registered 379659 and I have private and public indemnity insurance through Howdens.
Training, qualifications & experience
I can help with and have experience of working with
- Living with and managing anxiety
- Becoming more empowered in yourself, especially in terms of gender identity and sexuality
- Aspects of neurodiversity (eg ADHD), and to turn them into assets rather than problems
- Racism
- Relationships with family, partners and friends
- Grief and loss
- Living with HIV
- Past trauma
I am a qualified integrative therapist - integrative meaning that I draw mainly from psychodynamic and person centred theory. I also sometimes work with creative techniques, such as drawing and guided imagery.
BACP registered (379659)
CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, at Mary Ward Centre
Public and private indemnity insurance through Howden.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
The Covid pandemic might also be resonating or triggering, with those constant and confusing messages of staying away and apart from others - perhaps you're experiencing feelings of lowness, anger, anxiety, guilt. If so, please get in touch.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 - £75.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fees are structured as follows, for a 50 minute session:
- Zoom (availability Tue-Thurs, Fri mornings, Saturday mornings)
- In person in Battersea (availability Fridays)
- In person in Hove (availability Tue-Thurs, Fri mornings, Saturday mornings)
My fees are structured as follows, for a 50 minute session:
£65 (Zoom), £70 (Hove), £75 (Battersea).
A consultation is £25.
I do also offer fortnightly frequency - please get in touch to ask about this.
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