Dr. Mark Chustz
Gentle, practical therapy for life transitions
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mark
Dr. Mark Chustz practices with a focus on client-centered care that puts each person’s experience first. He is a LICSW with 34 years of experience and uses plain conversation to help people sort through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strains, addiction, and parenting concerns.
He speaks English and works with people in Massachusetts and beyond through online services. Dr. Chustz frames therapy as a collaborative process.
He listens, asks practical questions, and helps clients identify small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clearer communication, managing strong emotions, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. His training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which he blends with client-centered techniques. That means he pays attention to immediate patterns of thinking and feeling while keeping the person’s goals in view.
He also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when people want to look at deeper life questions or meaning. Over three decades of practice have given him experience with a wide range of problems, from addiction and trauma to career shifts and caregiving stress. He aims to be straightforward and calm in sessions, helping people name what’s happening and choose next steps.
Treatment plans are shaped around practical strategies and the client’s own priorities. Therapy sessions are offered via video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Starting involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to the platform’s process.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person needs in the moment. It helps people feel heard and guides goal setting that matches their life circumstances. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and habits affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change them, which works well in short-term online sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people identify and shift emotional patterns that affect relationships and personal wellbeing, useful when addressing intimacy or attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses options and tests methods together with the client, making adjustments based on what helps most. Over time the plan can shift toward skills practice, deeper meaning work, or a mix of both depending on goals and progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats allow sessions from home, easier scheduling around work or caregiving, and quick check-ins between appointments. Licensed professionals can use the mix of formats to fit communication style, pace of progress, and practical needs.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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