About Mark
Mark Palmer is a BACP counsellor with three years of practice supporting people through stressful life moments. He draws on personal experience of living with ADHD alongside his professional work. Mark aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth so people can talk without pressure.
He offers a calm, listening presence where clients set the pace. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing right now - anxiety, low self-esteem, feeling overwhelmed, or major life changes.
Background and approach
Mark uses clear, practical steps alongside reflective talk to help people spot patterns and try new ways of coping. Mark blends client-centred listening with elements of cognitive behavioural work and psychodynamic thinking. That mix lets him balance direct tools for managing symptoms with space to understand deeper feelings.
Sessions often move between practical strategies and exploring how past experiences shape present reactions. He understands the fast thoughts and self-doubt that can come with ADHD and aims to make therapy feel relatable rather than clinical. Parents who feel stressed about juggling responsibilities or people facing career or addiction worries will find focused, plain-spoken support.
Mark works with people in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. He offers several online formats so therapy can fit around work, family and daily life. If someone prefers to take a measured approach to change, he will walk alongside them step by step.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person at their own pace. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to make sense of feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses practical strategies to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. It is useful for managing anxiety, stress and low mood by teaching concrete tools to try between sessions.
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that come from past experiences and how they affect present life. It can help when someone wants to understand repeated relationship problems or persistent emotional patterns.
Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will listen to a person's needs, goals and preferences, and then suggest ways of working. Clients and the counsellor can adjust the plan as therapy progresses so it fits what is actually helping.
Online sessions offer a lot of practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing support between longer sessions or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare and travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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