Mark Esward

I qualified as a person centred therapist in 2023, gaining my PGDip Counselling and Psychotherapy from Salford University. This is a BACP accredited course with a focus on Person Centred Therapy (PCT), which you can find more about here. A significant number of my past and current clients are neurodivergent, and my work emphasises understanding that present day experiences and challenges often have multiple underlying influences. With that in mind I also work with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, substance misuse, bereavement and loss, psychosis, suicidal ideation, low self esteem and terminal diagnoses amongst others. In addition I have more than 10 years experience working within the NHS in the intensive care setting, which I still practice from time to time. Like many counsellors this is not my first career and that experience of working in a high pressure, fast paced environment has given me a great deal of perspective and insight into how humans operate. We are complex and one size does not fit all, my counselling style aims to see the individual first and foremost, it is that uniqueness which makes us human.