Mark Walker, BACP

Mark Walker frames therapy around the simple but powerful idea that talking helps. While conversations with friends, a walk in the countryside, music or meditation can ease pressure, he highlights the additional value that a professional, impartial listener can bring when life feels confusing, empty or anxious. He offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence for people whose difficulties have grown beyond what informal supports can manage.

He draws on a background that includes many years in education and a later move into counselling, meeting each person with curiosity and respect. His work emphasizes listening, exploration and reflection so clients can make sense of their feelings and life circumstances. He strives to create a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, compassion, acceptance and empathy, and he avoids imposing advice or directives - believing clients arrive at their own choices when the timing and inner work are right.

Originally from London and now based in Liverpool in the North West of the United Kingdom, he is married and has two grown children. He trained to practise as a counsellor after a career in teaching and follows a client-centered therapy approach. He holds BACP, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.