Mark Mikyska, LCPC

Mark Mikyska is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 18 years of experience helping people name and manage hard problems. He offers a direct, warm style that aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable. He focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems, addiction, and coping with health challenges.

Mark uses several approaches in sessions, including mindfulness work, psychodynamic ideas, trauma-focused methods, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He aims to help people notice patterns in their thinking and behavior, calm the body when stress is high, and make small changes that add up. Sessions are interactive and geared toward real-life steps people can try between visits.

His background includes long experience as a crisis worker in the Chicago area and many years supporting people with trauma and emotional abuse. That experience informs how he supports people who are dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, first responder strain, and the emotional fallout of major life changes.

Mark tries to help people build tools they can use on their own. He encourages exploration of values and meaning alongside practical strategies for sleep, anger, and coping. His approach emphasizes collaboration and helping each person find what fits their life.

People who choose him can expect a respectful, down-to-earth therapist who focuses on clear goals and steady progress toward them.

How Mark's approaches translate to online work

Mark often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; this can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy helps people learn simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and manage strong feelings. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and reducing the impact of past traumatic events while building safer ways to cope.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs and will adapt methods over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools feel most helpful and when to try something different.

Confirm current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and help fit sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a full visit isn’t feasible, and it removes travel time so people can focus on therapy during a break in their day.