About Mark
Mark Callaway offers straightforward, practical support for people facing difficult life events. He helps with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and relationship issues. He provides calm, steady conversations and aims to make the next steps feel manageable.
Mark is a BACP counsellor with 15 years of experience in therapeutic work. He has long experience with complex trauma and has worked across health and social care settings. He combines several approaches to suit each person's needs rather than relying on a single method.
How Mark works
In sessions he uses clear, direct ways to help people notice what matters and try different steps. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address unhelpful patterns of thinking. He also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how relationships shape current difficulties.
His background includes work in community mental health, residential childcare, safeguarding and substance misuse services. That experience informs how he supports people through crises and longer-term change. He has collaborated with GPs, hospitals and other care providers when needed.
Mark offers a range of formats including video calls, telephone, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions may be short-term or longer-term depending on what feels right. Practical options are discussed together and scheduled to fit each person's life.
People contact him for help with grief, self-esteem, parenting strain, sexual and intimacy concerns, ADHD and many other issues. He focuses on helping people build coping skills, make sense of painful experiences and move towards clearer priorities.
Mark lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Mark works with
The areas below are the ones Mark selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters and take small actions that align with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by focusing on meaningful goals rather than getting stuck in worry. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers specific exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for low mood, anxiety and sleep or eating difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour, which helps when intimacy, trust or family patterns are central concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work and the therapist will discuss options with each person. Together they will choose methods that fit the person's goals, preferences and the issues they bring. The plan can change over time as people try things and see what helps.
Online therapy is offered by video, telephone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people work visually and closely mirror in-person sessions, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing reflections or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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