Mark is a registered Psychotherapist (UKCP),  Somatic Movement Therapist and Practitioner and Teacher in Body-Mind Centering (R). Besides practising psychotherapy Mark works as mental health social worker, offers workshops and talks and teaches Embodiment and Somatics.

Mark has been working with King's since 2019 facilitating movement and theatre workshops for students and staff across SSPP and the Health Schools. Mark works with departments to design physical explorations of complex themes to give learners an embodied experience of academic or abstract themes. He has worked with the Department of War Studies, on Art and Reconciliations, The Visual Embodied Research Network on Art and Exclusion, and with health students on themes around well-being in professional practice. Mark was an instrumental partner of the ERASMUS-ARTHEWE  project, Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Well-being Education, delivering 8 movement sessions to students, staff and Trinity College Dublin partners. 

Mark has an MA in Community Arts and has performed in and designed performance projects, including participatory video projects and community performances. He works with large group facilitation through consensus models and more recently through Process Oriented Psychology.

Mark approaches his work with a blend of embodied knowledge, clinical practice and open mindedness and curiosity.

 Visit Mark's website https://www.markrietema.com/