Mark Byatt, BACP

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where you are. The therapist follows your pace, reflects back what you say, and helps you clarify your thoughts and feelings so you can decide on next steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits for issues like anxiety, low mood or stress. Existential Therapy helps people facing uncertainty or meaning questions. It encourages looking at values, responsibility and choices to find clearer direction when life feels confusing.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that suit your needs. That choice is reviewed over time so methods can be adjusted if something isn’t helping.

Online sessions offer flexibility in how you connect. Video calls let you see and hear each other for a fuller conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.