Marc Mason - Counsellor & Therapist in Hackney & Holborn | LGBTQ+ Affirming

The time we spend together is a supportive, boundaried space each week for you to explore any issues that are concerning you or that you are curious about. I aim to provide an environment for therapy that is supportive, accepting, and free from judgement.

An open door. The view of the room within shows a comfortable chair with a cusion on it. There is a table next to the chair with a plant, a box of tissues and a coaster. Behind that is the wall, with a radiator, and a window. There is bright light coming in from the window. On the window ledge there is a vase with two branches of bamboo and a small statue of a figure, sitting on the end of a spiral. There is a colourful stripey rug on the floor.

Within that space, the work that we do will vary according to your needs. You may just want space to explore a particular issue that’s bothering you at the moment. Or you may have decided to spend a longer period of time exploring aspects of your self, or your past or present. It may be that there are aspects of how you relate to the world and those around you that are causing difficulties and you want to become more aware of patterns that are affecting this. It may even be that you don’t know what you want to talk about, just that you recognise a need to seek a space to process and explore.

My working style draws primarily upon Gestalt therapy, but I am also trained in Transactional Analysis, and Person-Centred approaches. I integrate these in my practice in a way that is responsive to each client’s individual needs. I take a relational approach to the work, meaning that I invite you to explore the way that we experience each other during our work together. My way of working is also embodied, meaning that I view the body and mind holistically, and am open to our understanding deepening when we pay attention to what is happening in our bodies as we sit together.

Street scene. A building with scaffolding, and green hoarding. On the hoarding, in the right half of the screen, in pink is graffiti with the words "the space between is sacred". Then to the left, from left to right, a white builder wearing a high vis vest, shorts and hard hat sits on a 1st floor window ledge looking down. We can't quite see his eyes, but it's possible his glance goes to an older black woman walking on the street below. She is wearing a blues dress and red shoes. She pushes a walking frame. To her right, closer to the viewer with his back to us is another builder in black trousers, boots, high vis and helmet. He is holding something at chest level. In the background to the far right another woman walking into a road that meets this one at a junction, and a white van is coming out of that junction. The sky is blue.

I work with people from various communities, experiencing all sorts of issues, including, for example, anxiety and depression, or relationship problems. However, rather than providing a shopping list of problems or difficulties, I think it’s more helpful for us to discuss what is important to you at an initial consultation.

I also work with clients who, like me, identify as queer or from the LGBTQI+ community. I believe this enhances my ability to work with experiences such as shame, discrimination, and othering, and to support clients who are from oppressed or minoritised groups or are otherwise living ‘against the grain’.

My own professional and academic experience provide a strong foundation for working with lawyers or those whose motivation for seeking therapy might relate to their membership of another profession.

I offer an initial consultation for us both to determine how well we will work together.

Our work together starts by you booking an initial consultation by emailing, or calling.

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