Mark Greenaway-Robbins

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Relational Integrative Psychotherapy for Individuals & Couples with Mark Greenaway-Robbins

There are many reasons someone might seek the support of a psychotherapist or counsellor, and each person’s challenges are unique. Below are some of the areas that clients often bring to explore and work through with me:

Relationship challenges

If you’re noticing tension, distance, or repeating patterns in your relationship, couples therapy can offer a space to slow things down and really listen — to each other and to what’s happening between you. Whether you’re feeling stuck, disconnected, or facing change, we can work together to understand what’s going on beneath the surface and explore new ways of relating with honesty, care, and clarity.

What might bring you here:

• Communication feels blocked, tense, or defensive — you speak but feel unheard, or avoid talking because it always ends in hurt.
• Patterns of conflict or disconnection recur, no matter how often you try to fix them.
• Trust has been damaged — through betrayal, infidelity, emotional withdrawal, unmet needs, or shifting expectations.
• Differences in values, identity, sexuality, neurodivergence or life goals lead to misunderstanding or distance.
• Life changes — jobs, moves, children, illness, grief — are putting strain on how you relate, and old ways of being together no longer feel enough.
• Feelings of being “alone together”: you share a life, but have stopped feeling connected, safe, or seen.

What our work together can help you do:

• Build a clearer, more compassionate map of what gets in the way — patterns, history, emotional triggers, unspoken longings.
• Start honest, grounded conversations: about what you want, what you fear, what’s needed — in a way that feels safe and held.
• Explore what each of you wants — individually and as part of the relationship — and hold space for both.
• Learn ways to communicate, relate and reconnect that respect difference, identity, and lived experience.
• Re-examine expectations, boundaries, power, and consent: who you are to each other now, and what you need going forward.
• Decide — together — how you want your relationship to evolve (or whether the relationship itself needs rethinking), with clarity, honesty and care.

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Identity, sexuality, and gender exploration

You might be questioning who you are, who you can be, or how openly you can live. This can include exploring sexuality, gender identity and spirituality, or the impact of cultural or familial expectations. Therapy offers space to explore these dimensions of you without pressure to “arrive” at fixed answers.

A space where your identity is seen and honoured — not pathologised, not forced into boxes. Whether you are LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, exploring non-traditional sexuality, faith, or relationships — your truth is valid, and you are welcome.

Room for exploration, not pressure to “decide.” You might not have clear answers, and that’s okay. Therapy can be a place to hold questions, contradictions, hopes, fears — to sit with uncertainty, and give yourself the time and safety needed to understand more deeply.

Support in navigating external pressures and internal conflicts. Cultural expectations, family history, faith, community norms — these all shape how identity feels and how safe it is to reveal. We can explore how these influences affect you, and what it might mean to live more authentically while navigating complexity.

Attention to your whole being. Identity isn’t only mental — it relates to body, relationships, desires, boundaries, safety, and well-being. In therapy, we consider all these dimensions: emotional, relational, sexual, social, spiritual.

A path toward self-acceptance, agency, and integrity. Whether you’re clear about who you are or still discovering, therapy can help you feel more grounded in your identity, more compassionate toward yourself, and more capable of living in alignment with your values.

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Neurodivergence (autism, ADHD, OCD, bipolar)

You may be coming to therapy feeling misunderstood, mislabelled, exhausted from masking — or simply unsure where you stand. Maybe you’ve long suspected you’re neurodivergent, or you’ve recently received a diagnosis (autism, ADHD, OCD, bipolar, or other neurodivergent patterns), and are now trying to make sense of what that means for you.

Perhaps you’ve spent years adapting to systems, expectations or relationships that never quite fitted — working harder to “pass,” to blend in, to meet demands that ignored how your mind or nervous system actually works. That can take a huge emotional toll: confusion, shame, self-doubt, exhaustion, and a sense that you’re never truly seen.

Or maybe you just feel different — your ways of thinking, sensing, connecting or responding don’t match common norms, and you crave a space where that difference isn’t pathologised, but honoured, understood, and held with care.

If this sounds familiar, therapy can be an invitation to slow down, get curious, and reconnect with yourself — beyond diagnosis, expectations, or labels. Here’s what I offer in a neurodivergent-informed approach:

A space that honours difference rather than trying to “fix” you. Your wiring, your sensitivities, your rhythms — they are part of who you are. My aim is not to suppress or normalise, but to help you understand, accept, and navigate your neurodivergence with compassion and clarity.

Support around identity, self-acceptance, and self-understanding. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, self-identifying, or simply exploring what “neurodivergent” might mean for you — therapy can help you name, reflect on, and integrate aspects of yourself you may have ignored or hidden.

Exploring the impact of environment, relationships, and social systems. Neurodivergence doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It interacts with expectations, culture, workplace, relationships, and lived experience. We can explore how your environment affects your well-being — and what changes might support you feeling more aligned, grounded, and safe.

Developing strategies and practices that honour your neurodivergent mind/body. Whether it’s managing overwhelm, rethinking boundaries, finding rest, navigating relationships, or discovering what helps you thrive — therapy can help you build a toolkit, rooted in self-knowledge, respect, and lived experience.

Healing past wounds of misunderstanding, shame, or masking. If you’ve felt unseen, invalidated, or pressured to hide parts of yourself — therapy can offer a place to safely unravel that burden, to reclaim authenticity, and to build self-compassion.

Supporting identity, relational and existential aspects of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence affects not just how we think or feel — but how we relate, how we sense belonging, how we live meaningfully. Therapy can be a space to explore identity, sexuality, neurodivergence, relationships, and what “embodied self” really means for you.

You don’t need to have everything figured out before you come. Often, the hardest part is daring to pause — to ask: What if I don’t need to mask anymore? What if I could live with more authenticity, more safety, more self-understanding?

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Trauma and Its Ongoing Impact

You might be coming to therapy because something from your past keeps surfacing — not always as a clear memory or event, but as a constant ache, a sense of unease, or a body that doesn’t feel safe. Maybe you notice that you’re often on alert, or that you respond more strongly to stress, conflict or intimacy than you think “should” be normal. Perhaps you find it hard to trust others, or even yourself. You might feel numb, disconnected, or as if parts of you are always bracing for impact.

Trauma isn’t always visible or obvious. It can show up as anxiety, panic, chronic stress, dissociation, emotional reactivity or shutdown. It can ripple through your relationships, your sense of self, and how you navigate the world — even if you don’t label what you’ve experienced as trauma.

If you choose to bring this to therapy, we can work gently, attentively, and at a pace that feels right for you. Here’s how our work together could support you:

• A safe, contained space to begin again. Trauma can make inner and outer life feel unsafe or unpredictable. Therapy can offer a place where you don’t have to manage alone, where your experiences are held with care, and where healing starts from being seen, heard, and respected.
• Listening beyond words — honouring what’s in your body, emotions, relationships, and history. Often trauma lives not in stories but in sensations, reactions, memories, fragments. We’ll explore how trauma shows up for you — physically, emotionally, relationally — and what it means in your life now.
• Slow, paced, relational work — no rush, no pressure to “move on.” Healing trauma takes time, and I believe in working at your rhythm. Whether you come carrying deep pain, confusion, shame, or just a vague sense that something isn’t right — we’ll follow your pace, trust your process, and attend sensitively to what you need.
• Building resources, resilience, and inner safety. We’ll explore tools and practices tailored to you: ways to regulate nervous system, rebuild trust in self and others, strengthen boundaries, reconnect with parts of you that may feel lost, and gradually reclaim a sense of autonomy and inner balance.
• Supporting identity, context, relationships and meaning. Trauma doesn’t happen in a vacuum — it interweaves with identity, culture, relationships, life circumstances, and sometimes ongoing stress or marginalisation. In therapy we’ll keep the full picture in view; healing isn’t just about symptom relief, but about reclaiming your selfhood, relationships, and capacity for connection.
• Walking alongside you, companionably — not directing, but supporting your unfolding. I see therapy as shared journey. I don’t come with prescriptive answers or quick fixes. Instead, I offer presence, respect, steadiness — a relational container in which what you carry becomes visible, understandable, and gradually transformable.

If what you’re carrying feels heavy, intrusive, or isolating — or if you sense old wounds shaping how you live today — you don’t need to carry it alone anymore. Trauma-informed therapy can help you feel more grounded, more embodied, and more able to live from a place of safety, clarity, and integrity.

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Faith Deconstruction, Spiritual Trauma & Church-Related Harm

You might be coming to therapy because your relationship with spirituality / faith has shifted — or broken — and you don’t quite know who you are on the other side of it. Perhaps beliefs that once grounded you no longer feel true, or the structures that once held meaning now feel constraining, painful, or even harmful. You may be carrying grief, anger, confusion, shame, or a sense of loss that’s hard to name — especially if your spirituality once shaped your identity, relationships, or life choices.

I work with faith deconstruction, spiritual trauma, and church-related harm. After more than three decades in Anglican ministry before stepping away from the institution, I bring both lived understanding and therapeutic training to this work. I understand faith not only as belief, but as something embodied, relational, social, and deeply tied to meaning, belonging, and identity.

You may be questioning what to keep, what to let go of, or whether you want any relationship with spirituality at all. You might be navigating the fallout from spiritual abuse, rigid theology, control, silencing, or exclusion — or simply the quiet ache of realising that what once made sense no longer does. For some, this process is accompanied by isolation, fear of rejection, or tension with family and community; for others, it comes with a disorienting freedom that brings as many questions as answers.

In therapy, you don’t need to defend belief, justify doubt, or replace one certainty with another. I offer a grounded, relational, and ethically attentive therapeutic space where your experience is met with curiosity and respect. We can explore what has been lost, what still matters, and what is emerging — at your pace, and on your terms. This work is not about persuading you in any direction, but about supporting your autonomy, safety, and capacity to live with greater integrity and self-trust.

Whether you are disentangling yourself from faith entirely, re-imagining spirituality, or simply trying to make sense of what you’ve lived through, you are welcome as you are. Therapy can become a place where spiritual pain is named, grief is honoured, and a more grounded sense of self — shaped by compassion rather than coercion — can begin to take root.

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My commitment to you

As a caregiver cradles a new-born child in their arms, I commit to offer you a therapeutic relationship in which you are therapeutically held and cherished.

As a child explores the world with wonder, I commit to be curious with you trusting that through my stance of curiosity you will be offered different ways of being in the world.

As the most trustworthy in our lives are often those who challenge us the most, I commit to be ready to challenge you through gentleness within your capacity to receive it.

As our greatest supporters in life celebrate us for being ourselves, I commit to be a cheerleader who trusts in your inner resources.

As an inspirational leader embodies compassion, I commit to model and promote self-compassion in our work together.

As friends delight in company one with another, I commit to honour the place of humour and playfulness as essential to wellbeing.

As partners choose to collaborate as they journey through life, I commit to be a co-creator with you as the therapeutic relationship develops between us.

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Qualifications & Training:

• Diploma in Relational Couples Counselling (TherapyWorks.training, Cardiff)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of South Wales)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of South Wales)
• Certificate in Pastoral Supervision with Distinction (Wesley House, Cambridge)
• BA Hons in Theology (Oxford) | MA (Oxon)

Accreditations and registrations

• As a registered member (Registered Number: 394069) of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) I am bound to observe its code of Ethics and Practice, as well its Complaints Procedure. I work in accordance with BACP Ethical Framework.
• I am registered with the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) and comply with UK law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• I hold a current Enhanced DBS Certificate.
• By the requirements of my profession, I have regular supervision to ensure that I am working ethically and am fully committed to ongoing personal and professional development.

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Contact:

Begin your therapeutic journey by reaching out.

Rates:

• Individuals: £90 per 50 minutes
• Couples: £120 per 60 minutes
• Concessions may be available on request

Sessions:

PRACTICE DAYS (In-Person)
– Monday and Tuesday, Cardiff
– Wednesday & Thursday, London
(Online Mondays to Thursdays, other days sometimes available)

Next steps:

You are welcome to reach to me for a free consultation – via text, phone call or email – whatever suits you best. Or book a first session directly via my website.

Do take a look at my website, www.markgr.co.uk, which has more in depth information.