About Mark
Mark Smith is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. He supports people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief and depression. He also helps with concentration and memory concerns and offers support around ADHD.
He aims to treat each person with respect and compassion. He prefers to shape sessions around what the person needs. That means agreeing on simple goals together and adjusting the way they talk to suit each situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and on clearer ways to manage difficult days. His work draws on client-centred principles, which put the person's own experience at the centre of conversations. He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and motivational interviewing to build the drive to change.
These methods are chosen to suit the issue and the person rather than applied automatically. Mark pays attention to how past relationships and feelings of abandonment can affect current behaviour. He also offers help with body image, chronic pain, communication problems, guilt, shame and men's issues.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and make day-to-day life easier to manage. People who contact him typically get a clear first meeting to set priorities. From there they decide the pace and the mix of approaches.
Mark’s style is straightforward and warm, focused on small steps and practical strategies that fit into busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The counsellor aims to follow the person's lead, reflect what they share and help them find their own solutions; this helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour. It uses straightforward exercises to test and change unhelpful thoughts and build more helpful routines, which can be useful for anxiety and panic symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Mark will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods that fit you. That choice is collaborative and can change as you make progress or as needs shift.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when you want to see the counsellor, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on low-data connections, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family commitments and busy days while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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