About Mark
Mark S. Macko is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, and major life changes. He brings a calm, practical style and nearly four decades of clinical experience to conversations about everyday struggles.
He listens first and asks clear questions to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on communication, naming and expressing feelings, and building small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
Hope and steady progress are steady themes in his work. Mark has worked across inpatient, outpatient, residential, partial hospital, and online settings. He spent 19 years working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and has experience with addiction, chronic illness and pain, aging concerns, and isolation among other issues.
His academic background is in psychology and mental health. Clinically he uses approaches that emphasize practical problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Solution-Focused Therapy narrows attention to what’s working and to immediate, achievable goals. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation, targeted exercises, and strategies to cope between sessions. He frames therapy as a collaboration where small, consistent steps build toward better daily functioning and clearer direction.
How Mark’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Mark commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, then practice new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, concrete goals and on building what already helps, which can speed up practical changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration includes trying tools in sessions and adjusting them based on what helps most.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break from work. Live chat or messaging can support quick check-ins, follow-up questions, and brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and to use therapy in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English