About Mark
Mark Madry is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and the effects of trauma. He speaks plainly and focuses on helping clients take small, manageable steps toward feeling better. He has worked in the field for decades and brings that long experience to each session.
He listens with respect and keeps conversations focused on what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and goals, and the plan can change as progress is made. Mark aims to empower people rather than simply give advice. His background includes many years helping people with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, addictions, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges with self-esteem.
He also addresses complex issues such as bipolar mood concerns, grief after loss, and the long effects of abuse and trauma. Mark uses both body-focused and talk-based methods. He draws on approaches that include somatic work, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral strategies.
He picks techniques that fit the person in front of him rather than imposing a single method. People who choose him often want clear, steady guidance from someone who has decades of practice. He supports clients through life changes, coping crises, and moments when a steady, experienced presence makes a difference.
Mark keeps the work practical and focused on daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and strong feelings show up in the body. It can help when tension, panic, or chronic stress feel stuck in muscles, breathing, or posture. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them and commit to actions that match their values. That approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of relating that started early in life and helps people develop healthier ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Then he will recommend methods and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan fits the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, to continue work during life transitions, and to use brief check-ins between longer sessions. Mark uses these options to keep momentum in the work while tailoring the process to each client's pace and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 47 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English