Mark Fletcher


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About me
Life can often feel like a constant rolling churn. Fear of an uncertain future, feeling trapped or reliving unwanted past experiences, bereavement, relationship breakdowns, living with a painful body or a long-term health condition or the loss of a role can cause us to feel anxious, angry, sad, depressed or rejected leading us to believe our lives have no purpose or meaning.
If you are currently journeying through any of these experiences, then maybe therapy might be helpful.
Choosing a Therapist
Looking for a therapist is a courageous step in exploring concerns that are currently upsetting you. Perhaps you feel anxious or critical about sharing these concerns with someone else or worried about what comes next. Working with clients, I’ve found that people share similar themes such as feeling shame and a sense of worthlessness. Feeling that traumatic experiences or long-term health conditions or their painful bodies define them. Clients often express feeling angry shame and guilt, experiencing rejection, feeling hurt, alone, and insignificant. Feeling stuck in unfulfilling relationships, experiencing themselves as unseen, unheard or taken for granted. Believing themselves to be worthless and insignificant. Lacking purpose or feeling trapped in a role that no longer feels meaningful to them.
If any of these themes resonate with you, then maybe you would benefit from working with me as your therapist.
About Me
As a Person-Centred Experiential (P.C.E) practitioner, I passionately believe that an empathic, tender and compassionate space is the foundation of healing and change. I believe within this therapeutic space you will feel safe to explore the concerns that are upsetting you. By tuning into your feelings, body and thoughts, I also believe you will be able to feel less burdened, and more able to trust the wisdom that lives within you enabling you to experience freedom from the concerns that are bringing you to counselling.
What is PCE Therapy?
Person-Centred Experiential Therapy is the contemporary version of the Person-Centred approach to counselling. Grounded in present-moment empathic attunement, relational dialogue, genuineness, and compassion, PCE provides a safe space for you to listen to the messages your inner feelings are telling you, to make sense of your emotions, and develop new life meanings.
PCE Therapy, Depression and Anxiety
Recommended by the National Institute for Health and Excellence (NICE), PCE therapy also offers an effective evidence-based alternative to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (C.B.T.) for people experiencing depression (BACP, 2021). Studies have also shown how PCE is also an effective in supporting people experiencing various forms of anxiety including panic, generalised anxiety, phobias and agoraphobia.
Neurodiversity
Based on client work and decades of neurodivergent - ADHD and Autism - living experience, I offer safe and supportive face-to-face and online therapeutic spaces for neurodivergent clients and those supporting neurodivergent others. Spaces where neurodiversity can be tenderly and compassionately explored, and experienced and different ways of being and relating are welcomed and celebrated.
Free Introductory Calls
I recognise that choosing a therapist who may resonate with you can feel daunting. Believing the therapeutic relationship is fundamental to healing and change, I offer a free 15-minute no-obligation telephone or online conversation where we can explore what you are looking for, how I work, whether we both feel we could work together and other relevant practicalities.
Training, qualifications & experience
Therapeutic Experience
I'm currently employed by a leading North-West counselling agency for men, where I support clients experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and social differences, including anxiety, ADHD, autism, addiction, anger, bereavement, bullying, depression, gambling, family issues, health anxiety, life after prison, loneliness, low self-esteem, redundancy, suicidal thoughts, trauma, work-related stress. I have also supported people with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome and supporting people and their families living with cancer within an NHS clinical setting.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons.) Person-centred experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Level 4 Diploma in Person-Centred Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 3 Certificate in Person-Centred Counselling Skills
- Counselling Tutor in Online and Telephone Counselling
Training
- Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher (working towards Breathworks Mindfulness Accreditation)
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
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Fees
£40.00 per session
Additional information
Sessions start at £40.
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