Mark Greenaway-Robbins
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About me
I am a registered counsellor and psychotherapist with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) practicing in Cardiff city-centre who works with individual adults and couples (relationship counselling).
A decade of my adult life I have lived in Vancouver - British Columbia, Jerusalem, and Paris. Through these experiences, I enjoy being attentive to cultural diversity, heritage, and identity, and exploring their impact in our lives.
I am an LGBTQIA+ ally.
I am trained as a ‘relational integrative’ therapist. ‘Relational’ means that I recognise the power in therapy resides in the relationship co-created between the client and therapist. ‘Integrative’ means that I work with several theoretical approaches (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - CBT, Psychodynamic and Humanistic) so between us we can find a way of working together which meets your needs and aims.
I am interested in spirituality - how we find and make meaning in our lives. I have a wide-ranging experience with people of diverse faith traditions and of none, including the spiritually curious. Significantly, I work with many clients for whom spirituality isn’t important and is not part of our work together in therapy. My concern is to focus on the needs of the client.
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Training, qualifications & experience
- Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of South Wales)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling Skills with distinction (University of South Wales)
- BA Hons. in Theology (Oxford)
Code of ethics
As a registered member (Registered Number: 963091) of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) I am bound to observe its code of Ethics and Practice, as well its Complaints Procedure.
I have regular supervision to ensure that I am working ethically and am fully committed to ongoing personal and professional development.
I am fully insured for Professional Liability with Oxygen Insurance (OXY8109899).
I hold a current Enhanced DBS Certificate (1719289416).
I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller and operate within the General Data Protection Regulation. My registration number is: ZB338288.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
£60 per 50-60 minute to one hour session: face to face, online, phone, walk & talk, home visit (not including travel expenses).
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Further information
Making contact for the first time
You are welcome to call me for a free brief telephone conversation to ask questions and to get a sense of me as a person. Some clients prefer to do this by email exchange.
In advance of your first session, I will email you a welcome pack. This includes a working agreement, contact form, and sources of help outside your counselling sessions. This provides you with an opportunity to prepare for your first session, and to be fully informed in advance of our first meeting together.
Your first session
At your first session I will go through the working agreement to clarify you understand and agree to the terms, and the contact form which assists our work together. I will invite you to discuss with me what has brought you to therapy. Towards the end of the session, you will be invited to name what you want to get from your sessions. However, this may not be clear to you for several sessions.
Finally, booking the next session will be discussed, if you feel ready to commit to the process. You can of course take some time to think about this before you are ready to book.
