15 years experience specializing in Cognitive and Behavioral Counseling for anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship conflicts. Recent training in Bio-feedback, with Innovative Therapeutic Approaches, including certificates in Conflict Resolution, Stress Inoculation, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. A Psycho-dynamic background adds to this effective repertoire. Mark leads groups in compulsion and addiction and brings years of experience having treated Chemical Dependency.
As a Professor of Psychology at Concordia University, Mark brings a wealth of knowledge from scholarly research and latest trends in the field.
Elected into Psi Chi --National Honor Society in Psychology—Mark won an award for study in San Francisco in Phenomenology and Transpersonal Psychology. Mark also was elected as Who's Who of Students in American Colleges and Universities. Mark graduated with honors in Psychology and Philosophy from Trinity College after receiving a Presidential Scholarship. He holds a Masters of Science in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin and received a PhD from Sheffield University.
Mark has also been involved in nonprofit work with the Forensic Community Support Program of Milwaukee County seeing transformation take place with the chronically mentally ill and street addicts. Mark became the Clinical Coordinator for a nonprofit residence helping those who could not care for themselves which worked extensively with the population at risk for homelessness and aided therapeutic placement for patients transitioning out of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. Mark has witnessed the strongest of self-defeating behavioral patterns changed. He presents a personal and rational hope for all.