Safety before speed
We move at the pace your nervous system can handle. Pushing harder is not braver, and it rarely lasts.
About the studio
We built the practice we wished existed when life felt like two fights at once.
One for how you feel inside. One for the systems that decide what you can reach. Greenmark holds both, gently and in plain language.
Our story
Started by a counsellor and an advocate who kept meeting the same person.
Greenmark began in 2015, after our founders noticed how often clients were stuck in the same loop. Someone would do months of brave emotional work, then have it undone by a denied application, an inaccessible building, or a benefit they never knew they qualified for.
So we stopped treating those as separate worlds. The grief and the gatekeeping, the nervous system and the paperwork, the self-image and the self-advocacy. They all live in the same body. We decided to support the whole of it.
Today we are a small, deliberately unhurried team. We keep our books small enough to actually know the people we work with, and we measure success by how much lighter your week feels, not by how many sessions we sell.
What guides us
Four commitments we will not bend.
Plain language, always
Rights and therapy both hide behind jargon. We translate, so you can make real decisions about your own life.
You stay in charge
We are guides, not gatekeepers. Every plan is yours to shape, pause, or change whenever you need to.
The whole picture counts
Feelings, finances, access, identity. We refuse to pretend one of them can be healed in isolation.
The people
A small team, deliberately.
You will not be passed between strangers. The person you meet first is the person who walks with you.
Rowan Okafor
Founder · Lead Counsellor
Trauma-informed practitioner with fifteen years in inner-child and somatic work. Believes most people are far less broken than they have been told.
Ilse Varga
Co-Founder · Access Advocate
Spent a decade inside disability services before crossing over to the side of the people filling in the forms. Knows where the system bends.
Teo Nakamura
Confidence & Self-Image Coach
Works with clients reclaiming how they show up in the world, holding the tender questions of identity and appearance without judgment.
Come as you are, paperwork and all.
The first conversation is free and unhurried. We will simply listen and tell you honestly if we can help.