I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with over 35 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.
Additional areas of focus: 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, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Mood disorders, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Social anxiety and phobia, Traumatic brain injury, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy
FL LMHC MH4013
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Great listener and brings true examples into life lessons
Written on Feb 09, 2026 after therapy with Mark S. for 2 weeks on issues concerning addictions, family conflicts, and coping with life changes
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.
Written on Jan 28, 2026 after therapy with Mark S. for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, grief, and coping with life changes
Mark is professional, courteous, and asks great questions.
Written on Jan 28, 2026 after therapy with Mark S. for 6 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, and coaching
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.
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.
Written on Jan 15, 2026 after therapy with Mark S. for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, parenting issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue
He is a very good psychologist
Written on Sep 14, 2025 after therapy with Mark S. for 4 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, self esteem, coping with life changes, and coaching
Mark is so nice
Written on May 28, 2025 after therapy with Mark S. for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, and parenting issues