About Malcolm
Malcolm Bateup is a psychotherapist and relationship counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addictions and grief. He supports individuals dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and the challenges that come with life changes. Malcolm also works with people managing trauma, depression, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
He uses an integrative style that aims to match practical methods to each person's situation. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to how past relationships shape present feelings.
Background and approach
He writes in plain language and encourages clients to be part of planning their work together. Malcolm has worked in health settings since 1996 and has 14 years as a practising psychotherapist and counsellor. He carries the NCPS credential and participates in regular clinical supervision.
He also draws on lived experience of mental health when forming empathic, realistic plans with people. Typical sessions include talking through current problems, learning simple strategies to manage symptoms, and building small experiments to test new ways of coping. He may use ideas from attachment work, cognitive methods and client-centred listening depending on what feels most useful.
People come to him for practical help rather than labels. He aims to make the first steps simple and approachable, and to support steady progress over time.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions; it helps with intimacy concerns, abandonment fear and attachment issues by gently tracing patterns and building new interactions. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and supporting a person's own pace of change; it is useful for people who need a non-judgemental space to make sense of stress, grief or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, concentrates on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and manage low mood.Deciding on the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before, and then suggest options to try together. This flexible planning means methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy around work, care duties or travel. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be better when bandwidth or hands-free is needed; chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options aim to increase access and convenience while keeping the focus on clear, practical work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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