Mark Gutierrez, LPC

Mark Gutierrez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who focuses on helping people build stronger emotional regulation and practical coping skills. He aims to support individuals in strengthening existing resources and developing new strategies that make daily life more manageable and help reduce the influence of past stressors. His approach centers on creating foundations that guide people toward more positive experiences while reducing the hold of earlier difficulties.

Gutierrez emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as central to progress. His style reflects compassion, affirmation, flexibility, and fairness, and he believes healing is promoted within an environment of kindness, trust, and understanding. That orientation shapes how he works with each person to tailor interventions and support meaningful change.

His background includes work in education and experience with people from diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and sexual orientations, as well as those who have faced a range of mental health challenges and traumatic events. He provides care for concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family issues, intimacy-related difficulties, anger, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, body image, commitment issues, emptiness, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, men’s issues, post-traumatic stress, prejudice and discrimination, self-harm, self-love, sexuality, workplace problems, and issues facing young adults.

Therapeutically, Mark draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and trauma-focused therapy to match treatment to each person’s needs and goals. As an LPC he combines these approaches with a practical emphasis on developing skills that enable greater emotional balance and resilience.