Mark Bourne
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Mark
Mark Bourne offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or big life changes. He writes in a plain, warm way and focuses on what helps someone day to day. Mark is based in the United Kingdom and works in English.
He is registered with the BACP, which appears after his name as BACP. Mark draws on several practical approaches to shape sessions around each person.
Background and approach
He uses client-centred ways of listening so people can say what matters most. He also brings cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot patterns of thinking and change unhelpful habits. His background includes several years teaching in special needs schools as well as counselling work.
That mix gave experience with emotional difficulties, exam anxiety and challenges linked to neurodiversity. He has three years of professional experience as a counsellor. Mark often helps people with family tensions, grief, anger and relationship concerns.
He also supports men wrestling with identity, fatherhood questions and midlife shifts. He works with issues such as addictions, chronic illness or pain, OCD symptoms, panic and trauma-related problems. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person.
Some people prefer short, solution-focused steps while others want to explore feelings and history more deeply. Mark adapts his approach to what a person needs in the moment.
What Mark works with
How Mark works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches for online counselling and practical support
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and decide goals they want to work on. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage low mood and change unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will talk through goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Then he will suggest methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so the plan fits the person's needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give choice and convenience. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions or those who prefer typing to speaking. Registered professionals and therapists use these formats to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
