About Mark
Mark Callaway is a UK-based counsellor with 15 years of direct experience. He works with people who are dealing with trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety and relationship difficulties. He uses practical, personable methods to help people find steadier ground and more workable ways of coping.
Mark draws on somatic approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed work. He also uses client-centred and cognitive behavioural techniques to match what each person needs in the room.
Background and approach
Sessions often include grounding and body-awareness exercises as well as discussion and practical tools for day-to-day life. His background includes supporting people in community mental health, residential childcare, safeguarding and substance misuse settings. He has collaborated with general practitioners, hospitals, child and adult mental health teams, schools and care providers.
That experience informs a flexible, real-world approach to complex difficulties. Mark supports people facing grief, self-esteem and identity questions, parenting and family stresses, sleep or eating issues, chronic pain and long-term health concerns. He also offers help for people exploring sexuality, kink, adoption-related issues and neurodivergence.
He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions take place by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, with options for walking therapy or face-to-face work in some circumstances. Therapy can be short or long term depending on what each person needs.
Therapeutic approaches for body and mind online
Somatic work pays attention to sensations in the body and uses simple movement or grounding practices to help regulate emotion and reduce physical tension. It can be helpful for people who notice stress shows up in their body or who find talking alone feels limiting.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on values and flexible action. It uses exercises to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then helps people choose small steps that match what matters to them. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people practise safer ways of connecting and relating.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will check in about needs, goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try together. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and mobility limits, and let people continue work during life changes. Sessions can include verbal discussion, guided grounding and practical exercises adapted for the online space.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English