Mark Byatt
Practical, compassionate therapy for life’s hard moments
About Mark
Mark Byatt offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or major life changes. He presents as non-judgemental and patient, and aims to help people speak about hard topics and find small, practical steps forward. Mark uses ordinary language in sessions and focuses on what matters to the person in front of him.
He works from approaches that value the client's experience. Client-Centred Therapy shapes how he listens and responds, putting the person's perspective at the centre of sessions.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to help spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviours. Existential ideas are drawn on when people need to make sense of meaning, choice and responsibility in their lives. Mark has ten years of experience working in the United Kingdom.
During that time he has supported people with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief and complex mood concerns including bipolar. He also helps with parenting stresses, caregiving strain, attachment and abandonment issues, and challenges around self-esteem and motivation. Sessions may include talking through recent events, practising new ways of responding to stress, and setting small achievable goals between meetings.
The emphasis is on practical, manageable work rather than academic language. People often come with a single focused issue or several overlapping concerns and the work reflects that. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and Mark accepts international clients. Therapy is available through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Mark works with
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening carefully to the person's experience and responding with empathy. Online sessions using this approach aim to make people feel heard, helping them explore feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills for noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviours. Through video, phone or text-based sessions clients can work on specific patterns, set small tasks between meetings, and review progress together.
Existential therapy helps people tackle questions of meaning, choice and responsibility in everyday life. In online work this can involve conversations about values, life direction and how to live with uncertainty.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels useful, and then adapt methods as the work develops. That means sessions can change over time if different needs emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick reflections, ongoing support and people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
