Mark Haase
Experienced family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LMFT, LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mark
Mark Haase is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. He brings two decades of counseling experience and a long history in social services. He has worked in group homes, homeless shelters, crisis counseling after Hurricane Katrina, and with Medicaid populations.
Mark uses straightforward talk and practical skills in sessions. He helps people name and express feelings they may not have shared before.
Background and approach
He often combines a client-centered stance with cognitive-behavioral strategies and motivational techniques. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small changes that can make daily life easier. Parents and caregivers will find his approach down-to-earth and goal oriented.
He works with common family and parenting concerns such as stress, behavior problems, sleep issues, and relationship strain. He also supports anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. Mark draws on methods that teach skills for managing strong emotions and changing unhelpful thinking.
He also uses relationship-focused methods when work touches on couples or parenting dynamics. He speaks English and Spanish and has experience across age groups. His background in crisis and community settings informs a practical style in the therapy room.
He describes counseling as a challenge and an adventure, and he aims to guide people toward feeling more capable and whole over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and able to name their feelings, which can be a first step toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical skills to change behaviors and reduce anxiety or depression. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, adds clear emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are useful for intense emotions and impulsive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. From there he will suggest using client-centered listening, CBT skills, DBT tools, or a combination that fits the client’s needs and life situation.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. Video and phone sessions allow real-time conversations for skill teaching and problem-solving. Live chat and text messaging can provide brief check-ins, reminders, or coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so families and caregivers can choose what works best for them.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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