Team Member

Mark has over 5 years of experience in the field of mental health including 2.5 years experience as a registered psychotherapist in the UK. He is now licensed to counsel in Nova Scotia. He holds an MSc in Counselling & Psychotherapy and additional certification in Emotion-Focused Therapy. His experience includes providing counselling/psychotherapy to various age groups including adolescents and adults, in a variety of settings.

Before moving to Nova Scotia, he led the provision of counselling and psychotherapy to young people and adolescents in a high school. He also provided counselling to those in palliative care and to bereaved family members.

He believes that people have within themselves the possibility of finding better strategies by which to live more functional and fulfilling lives. He aims to help clients to locate and use their own resource to, resolve problems and difficulties and to find more satisfying ways of managing their lives.

He aims to empower positive physical, mental, emotional and spiritual development for individuals utilizing emotion focused and compassion based approaches. In particular, he specializes in helping to free clients from difficult or painful emotions, thoughts, beliefs or behaviours that are holding them back in their lives.

He offers a balance between an open, exploratory approach and specific therapeutic interventions to suit your needs and processing style. He believes in transparent, evidence-based practice and encourages regular dialogue around the therapeutic work, adjusting his approach as needed. Mark is currently accepting new clients for individual counselling for either in person or virtual sessions.