Markyse Bernadin, LCSW

Markyse Bernadin is a licensed clinical social worker with five years of practice. She welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start. Her style blends empathy with clear goals so sessions move toward practical changes people can use in daily life.

Her approach centers on listening first and collaborating on what comes next. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the conversation and set priorities. She uses music-based ideas at times, drawing on her own interest in music and songwriting as tools to support reflection and healing.

Markyse trained at Barry University where she completed a bachelor’s and master’s degree, and she is pursuing a PhD in social work. That education informs her work but she keeps language simple and direct during sessions. She speaks English and Haitian Creole, which helps reach people from different backgrounds.

She commonly helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. Other areas she addresses include relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, addiction, grief, self-esteem, and career transitions. She also supports people navigating abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and questions around kink and alternative sex culture.

In sessions she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior techniques, Jungian reflections, and mindfulness practices. The work is collaborative and focused on real-life coping skills and choices. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and decide their own next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors link to feelings and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they pick methods to try and adjust them as needed, keeping things collaborative and outcome-focused.

Confirm the exact online session options before booking, since formats are set by the therapist's practice. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and allow brief check-ins between in-depth sessions. It can also let someone choose whether to use video or phone based on comfort, bandwidth, or whether a shorter check-in is needed. Licensed professionals aim to tailor session length and pacing so therapy fits into everyday life without adding extra strain.