About Mark
Mark Mikyska is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience based in Illinois. He offers a direct, warm style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD-related struggles. Sessions aim to be practical and respectful, with an emphasis on building skills clients can use between meetings.
He has worked as a therapist and crisis worker in the Chicago area, supporting people who have faced trauma and emotional abuse.
Background and approach
He also helps those dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strain, sleep problems, and career transitions. His background includes work with veteran and first responder concerns and caregiver stress. In sessions he combines several therapeutic ways of working.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices bring attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity. Trauma-focused methods address painful memories in a paced and careful way.
Mark uses psychodynamic and existential ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and to explore questions of meaning and values. He emphasizes a collaborative process where clients learn to recognize triggers and build coping tools. The goal is to help people regain a sense of agency and steadier day-to-day functioning.
His approach is interactive and strengths-focused. He encourages clients to develop skills to manage anxiety, handle life changes, and improve relationships. Sessions combine discussion, skill practice, and planning for real-life situations.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mark blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy with mindfulness practices to meet practical needs. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, mood, sleep, and attention challenges. Trauma-focused work carefully addresses painful memories and reactions so people can reduce their impact on daily life. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills and simple practices to lower reactivity and improve concentration.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences then recommend a path forward. That collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques, adjust when something isn’t working, and combine approaches when appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can be useful for brief check-ins or practicing skills between sessions. These options aim to make ongoing care more flexible and easier to use alongside everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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