About Mark
Mark Mikyska is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 18 years of experience. He offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and grief. Mark aims to empower clients to notice patterns and build tools they can use between sessions.
Mark blends practical strategies with deeper exploration of meaning and past experiences. He uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Mark works
He also draws on mindfulness to teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and improve sleep. Trauma-focused work is part of his practice for people recovering from abuse or other traumatic events. He pays attention to how early relationships and life events shape current feelings, using psychodynamic ideas to help people make sense of painful patterns.
This can be useful for those dealing with intimacy issues, abandonment, or ongoing guilt and shame. Many people also come for help with family stress, parenting strain, career transitions, exhaustion from caregiving, or challenges tied to chronic illness. He understands how compassion fatigue and first responder stress can wear people down and offers ways to rebuild routines and coping skills.
Sessions are offered in English and available through online formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Starting is straightforward: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability. Mark aims to support each person in finding clearer direction and more manageable day-to-day coping.
Mark lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Mark uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often with practical exercises and structured steps that adapt well to video or text work. Existential therapy helps people name what matters to them and face difficult choices or uncertainty, a conversational style that suits longer video sessions or phone conversations. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, and these practices can be guided over video, audio, or text.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the nature of the problems together with the client, and adjust methods as progress is made. That means trying practical exercises, reflective conversation, or brief mindfulness practices to see what fits best for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and guided exercises, phone can fit a shorter check-in or when less bandwidth is needed, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or flexible communication between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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