Mark De Freitas

I offer morning, afternoon and evening appointments throughout the week.

I am a BACP Accredited psychotherapist offering CBT and DBT for anxiety, stress, emotional regulation difficulties and low mood for adults and young people. If you feel stuck in patterns of worry, overthinking, emotional overwhelm or relationship difficulties, therapy can help you develop practical strategies to move forward.

My approach is collaborative, structured and skills-focused, combining CBT and DBT to help you understand the patterns that may be maintaining anxiety, stress or low mood. Together we will develop practical techniques to help you regulate emotions, manage difficult thoughts and improve relationships.

I place a strong emphasis on learning and practising skills between sessions. Clients are supported to apply strategies in everyday situations, with structured guidance and resources to help reinforce what is learned in therapy. This between-session practice helps consolidate progress and build lasting change.

I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience, working as an Integrative Counsellor, Psychotherapist, CBT and DBT therapist with adults and young people across a range of settings.

I work with a wide range of difficulties including anxiety, chronic worry, depression, OCD, stress, emotional regulation difficulties, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and stress.

In addition to Integrative counselling, psychotherapy, CBT and DBT I also offer structured anxiety management sessions to help you understand and reduce the impact of anxiety in everyday life. Using practical strategies drawn from CBT and DBT, you will learn skills to manage worry, overthinking, stress and the physical symptoms of anxiety.

These sessions can be helpful for difficulties such as generalised anxiety, insomnia, work or exam stress, OCD and habitual worrying.

DBT sessions are £70 per session or £260 for a block of four sessions.

I offer Integrative Counselling, Psychotherapy, CBT, DBT and Anxiety management from my base in King's Heath, Birmingham. I offer both long and short term therapy, which is usually weekly. 

I am happy to have a preliminary discussion by phone to answer any questions you may have about what I offer before we agree to a first session. And t establish which approach is best suited to your needs.

Within the first session we will discuss your reasons for seeking support. We will establish how I can help you and what we will focus our work on. We will periodically review our work together to evaluate how the therapy is progressing.