About Markyse
Markyse Bernadin is a licensed clinical social worker who offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She uses messaging, phone, and video calls to meet people where they are and help them take the next step. Markyse keeps sessions direct and empathetic while focusing on achievable goals.
Her work emphasizes the client as the expert in their life. She creates a space where clients can talk openly and feel heard.
Background and approach
From that starting point, she helps identify small, realistic changes that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Markyse blends several approaches to suit different needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow the clients lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness to build present-moment coping skills.
She may also use insights from Jungian ideas when exploring personal meaning and life patterns. She has five years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Social Work from Barry University. She is listed as LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in Florida with licence FL LCSW SW17078.
She is also working toward a PhD in social work. Markyse is comfortable addressing a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, career strain, and more focused topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and alternative sex culture. Sessions are offered in English and Haitian Creole.
Outside clinical work she enjoys gardening, travel, music, and learning ukulele. She sometimes integrates music-based activities into sessions when they fit the clients goals.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Markyse draws on client-centered therapy to follow the clients lead and prioritize what matters most to them. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and creating space for honest conversation, which is helpful for people who need support naming and sorting through their concerns.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits by teaching practical skills to change thinking patterns and daily routines. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are also part of her toolbox for building coping skills, emotional regulation, and healthier communication when emotions run high.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the work stays focused and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options increase flexibility and help people access consistent support without rearranging their whole schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole