Mark Miele, LPC

Mark Miele is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama. He focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, bipolar disorder, depression, and related concerns. He approaches sessions with respect for each person's strengths and stories. Mark aims to support people taking the first steps toward change.

He sees clients as the experts in their own lives and centers their goals in conversation. Sessions typically involve listening, problem-solving, and learning new ways to manage thoughts and everyday habits. Mark draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, practical changes.

Over a decade of experience informs his practical style. He uses motivational interviewing to help people find the reasons they want to change, and he includes DBT-informed skills when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed. The focus is on clear strategies that can be used between sessions to build confidence and routine.

Mark also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. He works with a broad range of mood and personality issues, including panic, obsessions and compulsions, dissociation, and trauma-related problems. Conversations are direct but respectful, aimed at helping people make steady, workable progress.

People interested in starting are invited to consider what they most want to change. Mark helps set practical goals and checks progress along the way.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building goals that matter to the person. In practice that means sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on using their own strengths to get there.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and everyday habits that keep problems going. It works by identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavioral experiments to shift mood and routine.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. Brief skills practice can help during moments of crisis and support longer-term emotion regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which strategies to try first. That plan can change as progress is made so the work stays aligned with what actually helps.

Confirm current session formats before booking to understand practical options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also offer options for meeting when a quieter surrounding or lower bandwidth connection is preferred. Ask about the available formats when scheduling to find what fits daily life best.