About Mark
Mark Sikora is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and relationship concerns. He has four decades of professional experience and brings a steady, practical approach to sessions. Parents and adults worried about phobias or panic can expect calm guidance and straightforward steps to cope.
He listens first and asks simple questions about daily life and what's been most stressful. Conversations focus on identifying strengths and small changes that make life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match what each person needs that day. With a long career in Washington, he has worked with people dealing with trauma, addictions, bipolar mood challenges, and complicated grief. He also helps with parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and relationship and communication difficulties.
His work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, client-centered care, and the Gottman Method for relationship issues. Those approaches are used to teach coping skills, rethink unhelpful patterns, and rebuild connection when it matters most. Mark believes clients know their stories best and supports them in finding practical steps forward.
He aims to make therapy understandable and useful, so people can try changes between sessions and notice what helps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it is often useful for anxiety, avoidance, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which helps with depression, panic, and phobias. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, with support and reflection that make it easier to explore hard topics and try new coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the individual and adjust the plan as needed based on what works in real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face to face when a longer session or visual feedback is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and quick access when questions or difficult moments come up.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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