Mark Mikyska, LCPC

Mark Mikyska is an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC) with 18 years of experience. He offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on helping people take practical steps toward feeling better. He emphasizes respect and empowers clients to learn skills they can use between sessions.

Mark blends mindfulness, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed approaches in his work. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas and existential questions when they fit a person's needs. Sessions typically include talking through patterns, learning coping tools, and practicing new ways of handling stress and strong emotions.

He has worked with many common concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and issues connected to trauma and emotional abuse. He also supports people facing addictions, sleep problems, anger, and life changes. Additional focus includes caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, first responder issues, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.

Mark draws on his crisis work background in Chicago to help people stabilize during hard moments. He aims to make therapy practical and understandable, with clear next steps after each visit. He helps clients build skills for everyday life and encourages small, manageable changes.

People who choose him often want a thoughtful, compassionate guide who listens and offers concrete tools. If someone is ready to start addressing stress, relationship patterns, or trauma impacts, he supports them in finding workable strategies and personal insight.

How key approaches translate to online care

Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment and builds simple breathing and attention practices to manage stress and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood or panic. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on stabilizing reactions to past harm and developing strategies to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress occurs, keeping the process collaborative and paced to the client's needs.

Confirm current session options before booking to learn which online formats are offered. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into work and family routines, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and let people choose sessions that match their comfort with being on camera. Licensed professionals can guide tools and practices so therapy feels useful and relevant to daily life.