I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and complex relational and attachment wounds. My work is grounded in a nervous system awareness and a deeply relational approach that prioritizes safety, emotional truth, and meaningful change over symptom management alone. Over the course of my career, including years in large healthcare systems and leadership roles, I witnessed how often well-intentioned treatment models fall short by focusing on compliance, pathology, or short-term stabilization rather than root causes. That experience fundamentally shaped how I practice today. I specialize in working with people who feel stuck, unseen, or disconnected from themselves and others, particularly those with long standing patterns rooted in developmental trauma, attachment injury, or chronic stress. My clinical style is structured yet human, direct yet compassionate. I integrate evidence-based approaches, including IFS, ACT, CBT, DBT, and somatic practices, with a strong emphasis on insight, integration, and real-world application. I also offer expanded states of consciousness psychotherapy where appropriate, always within an ethical, intentional, and integration-focused framework. I believe effective therapy is not about changing who someone is. It is about helping them understand shaped them and their nervous system responses, reclaim agency, repair relationships with themselves and others, and live with greater clarity and integrity. My role is to provide a steady, grounded space where difficult truths can be explored safely and where meaningful, lasting change becomes possible.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
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The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I feel my greatest strengths as a provider lie in my extensive experience, compassionate approach, and specialized expertise. With 22 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I bring a wealth of knowledge and practical skills to your practice. My compassionate, strength-based, and goal-focused approach ensures that clients feel supported and understood, fostering a safe and nurturing therapeutic environment for healing and change. My specialization in ADHD, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression allows me to address a wide range of mental health challenges with tailored, evidence-based interventions, empowering clients to achieve meaningful and lasting change.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Mountain Solid Therapy specializes in serving clients seeking balance, harmony, and healing through evidence-based clinical services. Our ideal clients are those experiencing anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, ADHD, and other mental health challenges. We are particularly suited to support individuals motivated to engage in a comprehensive therapeutic process, integrating practices like CBT, DBT, REBT, IFS, and ACT. Our approach is compassionate, strength-based, and goal-focused, helping clients achieve lasting change by addressing their unique needs with personalized care in a supportive and grounding environment.
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-focused care is an approach in therapy that centers on understanding and addressing the impact of traumatic experiences on an individual's mental and emotional well-being. It involves creating a safe, supportive environment where clients can process their trauma at their own pace, using evidence-based techniques. With 22 years of experience as a therapist, I have helped numerous clients build resilience, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and ultimately achieve healing and recovery from their traumatic experiences through trauma-focused care.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress. It is based on the principle that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and by modifying dysfunctional thinking and behavior, we can improve emotional regulation and develop healthier coping strategies. In my extensive practice, I have successfully utilized CBT to treat a variety of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, and phobias, through techniques like cognitive restructuring, exposure therapy, and skills training.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed to help individuals manage intense emotions, develop healthy coping mechanisms, and improve interpersonal relationships. It combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of mindfulness, distress tolerance, and acceptance derived from Buddhist meditative practice. My professional experience includes effectively using DBT to treat borderline personality disorder, suicidal behavior, and chronic mental health issues by teaching skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach that views the mind as composed of multiple distinct parts, each with its own perspectives and roles, and a core Self that possesses qualities such as compassion, curiosity, and calmness. IFS therapy helps individuals identify and understand these internal parts, particularly those that carry burdens of trauma or negative experiences, and facilitates healing by fostering a harmonious relationship among them. With 22 years of experience as a therapist, I have effectively utilized IFS to help clients achieve profound personal growth and emotional healing by guiding them to access their core Self and harmonize their internal parts.
5 ratings with written reviews
July 13, 2025
He is exactly what we needed.
June 17, 2025
Felt an immediate connection. Very much looking forward to our future sessions.
May 30, 2025
Mark is by far the best, most comprehensive and authentic therapist that I've had. I thoroughly enjoy meeting up with him every week.