Mark Gutierrez, LPC

Mark Gutierrez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on helping people strengthen their coping skills and manage stress and anxiety. He emphasizes practical skill-building to support better self-regulation and emotional growth. Sessions aim to help clients move toward more positive experiences while reducing the hold of difficult past events.

He centers the counseling relationship on kindness, trust, and understanding. His style is described as compassionate, affirming, flexible, and fair. Those elements are used to make room for honest work on painful subjects like trauma and loss.

Mark draws on about 10 years of counseling experience and a longer career in education. That background includes work with people from varied ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations. He has supported many who have faced trauma or vicarious trauma and related stressors.

In sessions he helps people develop and strengthen skills for emotional regulation, coping with stress, and addressing anxiety and depression. He also works on self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and career-related stress. Additional areas of focus include ADHD, compassion fatigue, and LGBTQ-related struggles.

Clinical approaches used include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Mark tailors interventions to each person’s needs and goals, aiming for steady, practical change over time.

How therapy approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills for changing them, often helping with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathy and acceptance to make space for honest self-reflection and healing.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will meet people where they are and jointly decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting where needed.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as specific options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on a work break, or letting people choose appointments that match their daily routine. Many people find it easier to practice new skills between sessions when therapy fits smoothly into their week.