Mark Miele, LPC

Mark Miele is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, bipolar symptoms, depression, and relationship and family concerns. He focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and safer. He emphasizes each person's strengths and choices when working toward change.

Mark uses a straightforward, supportive style in sessions. He sees people as the experts on their own story and helps them build on what already works. Conversations are focused on real problems and real solutions rather than labels or lectures.

His tools include cognitive behavioral ideas for shifting thought and behavior patterns, client-centered listening to find what matters most, and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. He also incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people stay motivated and grounded.

Over ten years Mark has worked with a wide range of concerns, from grief and trauma to sleep and eating difficulties. He pays attention to how problems overlap, including co-occurring conditions like mood disorders, substance use, and personality-related challenges. He aims to help people set clear goals and take steady steps toward them.

People who reach out can expect a calm, goal-oriented approach that respects their values and pace. He offers encouragement and practical skills, along with space to talk about painful experiences. The focus is on building coping strategies that fit everyday life.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building on what already helps you. Online sessions using this approach focus on your priorities, with the therapist reflecting and asking questions that clarify goals and next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. In online sessions CBT translates to setting clear targets, practicing new behaviors between meetings, and reviewing progress together. This can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and compulsive patterns.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings practical emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills. In a remote setting this often means learning short breathing or grounding exercises, practicing communication skills, and checking in about how skills fit into daily routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to your needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing one single path. Together you can try techniques and adjust what is used as progress is tracked.

The practical benefit of online work is fitting therapy into a busy life. Because session formats were not specified in the biography, confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to have regular check-ins, try brief phone or video check-ins when time is limited, and continue work during transitions such as travel or schedule changes.