Mark Taylor
Creator, author and host.
Mark Taylor is a qualified Mental Health Nurse with over 30 years of experience, specialising in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS). His career spans secure psychiatric services, inpatient eating disorder units, and frontline community CAMHS, where he has worked extensively with young people and families in crisis. Mark has a particular interest in the community treatment of eating disorders and supporting adolescents through acute distress, including high-risk presentations. In addition to his clinical work, he lectures at university level and delivers mental health training to professionals across health, education, and social care sectors. As the host, writer, and producer of the Headstraight podcast, Mark brings clinical insight, compassion, and no-nonsense clarity to the mental health conversations that young people actually want to hear. His aim: to make mental health more understandable, more honest—and more human.