About Markyse
Markyse Bernadin is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of experience. She offers messaging, phone, and video sessions and aims to meet people where they are. Her style is warm and direct, helping clients set realistic goals while staying grounded in empathy and support.
Markyse believes people know their own lives best. She centers conversations on the client's experience and uses listening and reflection to help people name what matters.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and address relationship or life transitions. Her background includes a bachelor's and master's degree from Barry University, and she is working toward a PhD in social work. Growing up in South Florida shaped her roots and cultural perspective, and she speaks English and Haitian Creole.
Markyse uses a blend of approaches in session. She draws on client-centered methods to prioritize the client's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral and dialectical tools to teach skills for mood and behavior change.
She often brings creativity into her work, including music-based activities when useful. Common concerns she helps people navigate include stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addiction, and challenges around identity and relationships. Her work is practical and collaborative, aimed at helping clients build clearer routines and coping strategies.
Outside clinical work she enjoys gardening, travel, and learning the ukulele. Those interests inform a relaxed and person-centered approach that values small, steady changes over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Markyse uses client-centered work to place the client's experience at the center of each session. That means she listens, reflects, and helps people set their own goals while offering steady support for emotional concerns such as anxiety or grief.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a method that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT can be useful for reducing worry, changing patterns that keep stress high, and building practical coping strategies. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used as well to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help in moments of intense feeling.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Markyse collaborates with each person to decide which tools make sense based on their goals, needs, and preferences. She will try different strategies and adjust the plan as progress and feedback guide the process.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy flexible for busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit consistent support into school, work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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