About Mark
Mark Schiffman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people reduce fear, anxiety, and stress so they can function better day to day. He offers straightforward guidance to people coping with phobias, panic, relationship strain, addiction, grief, and other concerns. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on real-life change.
He draws on 25 years of clinical experience and a Master of Social Work from NYU. His sessions use tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also uses dialectical behavior skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mark often combines talk-based work with skill practice. Clients learn practical techniques to reduce avoidance, manage panic, and improve sleep and eating patterns.
He explains steps simply and helps people try new strategies between sessions. He works with individual adults and provides supportive, nonjudgmental listening. For parents and caregivers he can recommend ways to handle family stress, parenting strain, and aging or hospice concerns.
He also addresses concerns common in LGBT communities and people coping with trauma or abandonment issues. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The emphasis is on finding workable changes that fit each person’s life and goals.
Practical approaches for online care
Mark uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and phobias. CBT focuses on small experiments and practice to reduce avoidance and ease panic symptoms.He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Those skills help when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships become strained.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. He will talk with each person about their goals, what has helped before, and what feels doable. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face coaching and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text formats let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused touchpoints during a busy week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working on clear, practical goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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