About Mark
Mark Duarte is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people facing identity questions, depression, anxiety, and trauma. He listens without hurry and focuses on practical steps. He aims to create an atmosphere of respect, sensitivity, and compassion for people seeking change.
Mark draws on many years of hands-on experience to help people work through anger, grief, addiction, stress, and self-esteem struggles. He supports those coping with life changes, career concerns, intimacy issues, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
He also addresses concerns related to ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue. In sessions he keeps the conversation grounded and clear. He works with each person to set realistic goals and practices.
That can include learning new coping skills, testing different ways of handling conflict, or changing routines that make daily life harder. His approach blends client-centered care with methods that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and emotional regulation. Together with the person he creates a practical plan that fits their goals and pace.
He emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Mark brings 46 years of professional experience to his work as an LCSW. He recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to support and empower people through that process.
Sessions are offered in English for those living in California.
How his approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person as they are. The therapist reflects what the person says and helps them discover their own solutions; this approach is useful when someone wants a supportive, nonjudgmental space to talk through identity or life purpose issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. In short practical steps people learn to test unhelpful thoughts and change small habits that make anxiety, depression, or sleep problems worse.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s needs. That collaboration helps shape a plan that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, reminders of skills, or when a quick supportive message helps between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English