Hello, I am Mark. I am an accredited Core Process Psychotherapist and a registered supervisor. I work with clients from my private practice in Dartington, Devon.
As a psychotherapist, I am experienced in supporting clients with a range of needs, including mental health, complex trauma, challenging life events and issues concerning identity, direction and meaning. I offer short-term and long-term therapy, in-person and online. You can find out more about my work below.
I also provide supervision for psychotherapists, counsellors, coaches, and for professionals involved in education.
If you would like to have an initial conversation about your situation, we can arrange a brief telephone call. If appropriate, this can be followed with a free introductory in-person meeting to explore if working together could be right for you. Anything you share will be confidential.
If you wish to get in touch Contact Me. I aim to respond to you within 48 hours.
Mark Hunt
MA UKCP (2011165456) MBA MSc QTS PPNE
Psychotherapy, sometimes referred to as “talking therapy” is a means for supporting psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
I include physical health because our understanding today of the body-mind connection recognises the relationship between energy, illness, pain – and the mind.
And, I include spiritual wellbeing because of the important role spirituality, meditation, contemplation, and religion can play in our lives.
Ongoing therapy involves meeting regularly (usually weekly) with a professional who has undergone significant training and their own psychotherapy.
Some aims of therapy are: helping a client to come to terms with wounding (past and present), recognising supportive resources, strategies for coping, and developing greater self-awareness.
Some of the individual concerns and interests psychotherapy can support:
general or specific anxiety
healing from trauma
coping with the effects of abusive or negligent relationships
sexuality and sexual identity
gender and gender identity
self-harm
relationship difficulties
confidence and self-esteem
physical pain and illness resulting from various forms of stress
coping with stressful situations
fears and phobias
panic attacks
managing personality disorders
compulsive and obsessive behaviour
addiction
eating disorders
depression, lethargy, and low energy
dealing with loss and grief
nervous system regulation
dissociation and derealisation
Psychotherapy with me provides a non-judgemental and confidential space where you can explore whatever is on your mind. I will welcome you – as you are – with empathy and compassion.
You can find support to work with the effects of trauma, difficult life events, and unfulfilling patterns and also to recognise your strengths, resources, and opportunities.
My approach includes the many layers of our experience and honours the underlying health and sanity in our nature.
I hold a Masters Degree in Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP), which is one of the original mindfulness-based psychotherapy trainings.
The Buddhist practice of mindfulness, or present-moment awareness, enables the possibility of bringing into consciousness a much broader experience than we might ordinarily notice.
This rich picture can include bodily sensations, subtle feelings, overlooked emotions, mind states, soul qualities and unrealised thoughts, all of which can support a greater understanding of ourselves. There is wisdom in this understanding that can help us overcome the confusion that ultimately causes our suffering.
Part of the therapeutic process involves establishing or strengthening inner resources that support mental and emotional health, such as being able to self-regulate and appropriately engage different parts of our nervous system, developing witness awareness, and opening to the support of others.
Once established, these resources become invaluable to us, both in and outside of therapy.
A long-standing practice of self-enquiry and embodied meditation, in the Buddhist tradition, support me in my work. I have regular supervision and my own personal psychotherapy.
Other significant influences are nature, body-psychotherapy, Jungian psychology, anthroposophy, transpersonal psychology, developmental psychology, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Please provide your contact information in the form to the right.
I only require a brief message, perhaps stating your preferred way to be contacted and suggesting some good days and times.
You should receive an automated confirmation right away, acknowledging your message. I aim to respond personally within 48 hours.