About Mark
Mark Mikyska is an Illinois-licensed clinician (LCPC) with 18 years of experience offering individual and group therapy. He integrates mindfulness, psychodynamic, trauma-focused methods and existential inquiry to address a broad spectrum of difficulties, from anxiety and depression to addictions and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
His practice emphasizes respectful, attentive collaboration that helps clients build skills and inner resilience while exploring the roots of recurrent patterns.
Mark has supported people coping with relationship strain, family challenges, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep disruption, anger, and career transitions, as well as more complex concerns such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, chronic pain, caregiver stress, and effects of abuse or dissociation.
He draws on trauma-informed strategies alongside reflective and present-focused techniques to assist clients in managing symptoms and increasing self-understanding. He aims to empower clients to become their own clinicians through practical tools and deeper therapeutic insight.
Based in Illinois, Mark brings experience from crisis work and community settings in the Chicago area into his practice. He presents a warm, interactive style that balances empathy with active problem solving for those ready to move toward clearer goals and better day-to-day functioning.
Integrating therapeutic approaches in online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms such as anxiety and depression; it is practical and skill-oriented, often used for stress, mood, and sleep difficulties. Trauma-Focused Therapy zooms in on helping people process traumatic memories and reduce their ongoing emotional impact through structured interventions and safety-building strategies. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-focused awareness and acceptance skills that can help regulate emotion, reduce rumination, and improve coping with chronic stress or pain.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mark will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and responses to different methods, adjusting the plan over time so treatment aligns with what helps most. Clients and therapist together decide which techniques to emphasize based on needs and progress.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which provides flexibility for scheduling and access from different locations within Illinois. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy into busy lives, and use brief check-ins or longer sessions depending on what the client finds helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English