David Mayes , BACP

David Mayes is a UK-based talking therapies counsellor with eight years of professional experience working with a wide range of presenting concerns. He brings a client-centered, humanistic outlook to his practice, focusing on empathy, respect, and genuine engagement to help people explore issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, addiction and substance misuse, bereavement and loss, and trauma and abuse.

He has supported clients with relationship and sexuality concerns, intimacy-related issues, and has a respectful, informed approach to kink and alternative sexual cultures. David also works with matters related to family dynamics, parenting, career pressures, anger, self-esteem, grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD and long-term health challenges including chronic pain and caregiving stress. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, codependency, communication and commitment problems, and body image.

His background includes experience in a variety of settings such as IAPT services, the NHS and forensic environments, as well as online and telephone work for both domestic and international clients. He holds BACP credentials - the UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists - and combines a warm, approachable manner with a commitment to treating each person with politeness and individuality. David aims to empower people to make meaningful change and supports both short and long-term therapeutic work.