About Mark
Dr. Mark Chustz offers a practical, person-centered approach to therapy. He is a LICSW with 34 years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, ADHD, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Clients meet with him to talk through life's transitions and recurring challenges. He uses clear, down-to-earth language and works together with each person to set realistic goals. Sessions often focus on building coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and improving communication.
Background and approach
His background includes long experience supporting people with workplace stress, social anxiety, midlife shifts, and mood concerns. He also has a strong focus on caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, and issues that arise after trauma and loss. He helps people untangle family-of-origin patterns and repair how they relate to others.
Therapy with Dr. Chustz blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotionally-focused work. He draws on existential and Jungian ideas when exploring meaning, life purpose, and deeper emotional patterns.
The aim is to help people find clearer choices and greater emotional balance. People often come for short-term coaching around a specific problem or for longer work on identity and relationships. Sessions emphasize small, doable changes.
He encourages people to try strategies between sessions and to track what helps so therapy becomes something they can use outside the office.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Dr. Chustz commonly blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting back so someone feels heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical exercises to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage ADHD-related challenges.He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas when relationships or intimacy issues come up, helping people notice and change patterns that keep them stuck. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; he works together with each person to match methods to goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs rather than imposing a single model.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written coaching, or when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint helps maintain progress. These options make it possible to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the therapeutic work focused and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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