About Mark
Mark Gutierrez is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who focuses on helping people build stronger coping skills and emotional regulation. He aims to help clients develop practical tools that reduce the impact of stress, anxiety, trauma, and difficult life changes. Mark draws on ten years of counseling experience and a background in education to guide his work.
He focuses on clear, useful skills rather than jargon. Sessions often include learning ways to manage intense feelings, build self-esteem, and handle workplace or relationship strain.
How Mark works
He also supports people facing grief, compassion fatigue, identity questions, and challenges related to sexuality. Mark emphasizes the counseling relationship as the foundation for change. He describes his style as compassionate, affirming, flexible, and fair.
He works to create an atmosphere where people can feel heard and understood as they try new ways of coping. His background includes a Master in Education and a Texas LPC license. Prior to counseling he spent over fifteen years in education, working with people from many different backgrounds and experiences.
That history informs how he listens and responds in sessions. In practical terms, Mark helps clients translate insight into routine habits. He focuses on skills that support day-to-day functioning, from managing anxiety and mood shifts to confronting feelings of guilt, shame, or isolation.
The goal is steady progress that fits each person’s life.
Mark lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Mark works with
The areas below are the ones Mark selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them, so they can act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavior changes to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathy and acceptance to help people feel understood and find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they can try an approach and adjust it over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a shorter check-in during a break, and text-based messaging helps people pace their thoughts between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the format that best fits their schedule and comfort.
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