Mark S. Macko
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
Florida therapists accepting new clients
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About Mark
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with over 36 years of professional work experience helping clients with stress and anxiety, coping with grief and loss, bipolar disorder & depression, to name a few. I have worked inpatient, outpatient, residential, partial hospital programs and online. The most extensive was 19 years with the VA. My degrees are in Psychology and Mental Health. While I do not aspire to any particular theoretical approach, I am most closely aligned with Christian based , cognitive behavioral and solution driven therapies. The most important components of helping are communication, expressing emotions and having hope that change can occur.
What Mark helps with
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Stress, Anxiety
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
How Mark works
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
What clients say
- “Mark is wonderful to work with. Very kind and understanding in his approach.”
- “Mark is great!”
- “Felt a strong connection in my first session. Finished my third and I am very impressed by Mark's demeanor, knowledge and experience.”
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- “Great listener and brings true examples into life lessons”
- “I’ve just finished my third session with Mark and he is very personable and is an active listener. He is able to give me tools to handle the different circumstances that I face. I look forward to continuing my therapy with him in the coming weeks.”
- “Mark is professional, courteous, and asks great questions.”
- “Mark is a great counselor he listens and has great understanding about relationships. I would recommend him to everyone!”
- “Mark is a very professional therapist, and I truly appreciate the way he not only listens to my insecurities and worries, but also helps me understand them on a deeper level. He provides me with knowledge in a very professional way giving me definitions of emotions, explanations of where my feelings come from, and helping me make sense of what I’m experiencing.<br /> Another thing I really like is that every time our session starts, he asks about the people around me. That’s something completely new for me, and it feels very caring and meaningful. I also appreciate how organized he is. He follows his own structured protocol, and he is always punctual both at the beginning and at the end of our sessions. I value that a lot.”
- “Great perspective and helpful!”
- “Great therapist, He hears and is intentional on helping!”
- “He is a very good psychologist”
- “Mark is a wonderful therapist. He listens and makes suggestions. He is very focused on YOU and your needs. My husband and I are seeing him for marriage counseling and it has already helped our relationship in just a short time. He is kind and empathetic. He genuinely cares that our marriage succeeds. We 100% would recommend Mark for both couples and individual neds.”
- “Mark is so nice”
- “Mark is an insightful and attentive person that easily tunes into the issues at hand and has many tools and techniques to further explore those issues and recommend helpful ways to address them.”
- “Mark is a great therapist who listens to your needs and helps guide you in a direction that allows you to feel safe while healing.”
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