About Mark
Mark Mikyska is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 18 years of experience. He offers a calm, direct style aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. He focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier day to day.
He uses a mix of approaches including mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, trauma-focused work, existential questions, and cognitive behavioral strategies. Sessions often look at how past experiences shape current reactions and also teach concrete skills for regulating emotions.
Background and approach
He helps people talk through grief, relationship struggles, addictions, sleep problems, and issues around parenting and caregiving. In the room he keeps things respectful and interactive. He encourages clients to try new ways of thinking and to notice what works for them.
He aims to help people become their own best guides over time rather than relying on the therapist for all answers. Mark has long experience responding to crisis and to complex trauma. That background informs how he plans treatment and how he stays focused on safety and pacing.
He also brings attention to life meaning, values, and choices when people are ready to look at those topics. People can expect short-term skill work when needed and deeper reflection when that fits. He is comfortable addressing issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, anger, career transitions, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Therapy is collaborative and paced around each person’s needs.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments and coping skills. It is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep issues, and many mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus; it often helps with stress, trauma symptoms, and emotional regulation. Trauma-Focused Therapy involves careful pacing, grounding skills, and attention to how traumatic experiences affect daily life; it is used to reduce trauma-related symptoms and improve coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they will choose or blend methods so sessions match the client's needs and pace, and they will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients share brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or work through coping ideas when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and to use therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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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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