About me
As a UKCP-accredited psychodynamic therapist with a rigorous, four-year postgraduate training at Oxford University, I provide a private, confidential space for individuals, couples, and polycules.
My work is focused on examining the unconscious patterns influencing your life, relationships, and wellbeing. Whether you are dealing with acute distress or seeking to explore long-standing personal dynamics, I offer a professional, contained environment. My approach is grounded in the belief that lasting change is best achieved by working through the root causes of our difficulties, while simultaneously addressing the symptoms that bring you to therapy.
I believe our internal emotional worlds are inextricably linked to how we relate to others and how we experience our own bodies and desires. By working within the psychodynamic tradition, we look beyond surface-level conflicts to the deeper patterns shaping your current experience.
My clinical practice encompasses:
- Relational Dynamics: Addressing the deeper causes of conflict, repetitive cycles, and feelings of disconnection within relationships.
- Intimacy, Desire & Sex: A non-judgmental space to explore the complexities of desire, sexual satisfaction and human intimacy. I provide specialized support for sexual health concerns—including low desire, difficulties with penetration, and erection problems. I offer a clinically informed environment for those navigating minority sexualities and gender identities, including LGBTQIA+ people, those practicing ethical non-monogamy or polyamory, and individuals exploring BDSM and kink.
- Emotional Patterns: Unpacking long-standing anxieties, depressive patterns, or the impact of life transitions on your ability to live fully.
Training, qualifications & experience
My practice is informed by an extensive academic and clinical background. Beyond my four-year training at Oxford University, where I also serve as a guest lecturer, I am currently completing a specialized diploma in psychosexual therapy at Tavistock Relationships. This dual focus allows me to offer an analytically rigorous lens to the full spectrum of psychological and sexual health.
I am committed to an anti-racist, LGBTQ+ affirming practice open to all genders and relationship structures. I maintain a reflective, neutral stance that respects your unique history and identity.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£83.00 - £122.00
Additional information
- Phone call: We begin with a brief, no-obligation telephone call to discuss your needs and ensure my approach is the right fit.
- Initial Consultation: A 50-minute session to explore your history and therapeutic goals in depth.
- Flexibility: I offer weekly, open-ended sessions for sustained work, as well as short-term options (4–6 sessions) or ad hoc support.
To arrange an initial conversation, please contact me at: markellis@fastmail.co.uk
Fees: Individuals: £83/50 minutes | Couples/Polycules: £122/50 minutes
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