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Mark Fleury, BS

BS Family Social Science, Pre-licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor, working towards LPCC

New Client Openings | MORNING Availability

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt,

They’d immediately go out.”

-William Blake

The above couplet, from the poem Auguries of Innocence, captures my belief that we provide the light of meaning and purpose to our own lives. The couplet also speaks to the necessity of relationship, in William Blake’s case, between the Sun and the Moon, and in our case, between not only therapist and clients, but clients and the rest of the support systems around them. The world needs the sun, but it also needs the moon for the ocean’s tides, and the rain to make the flowers of spring grow. It’s my belief that while we are the source of our own solutions, we can’t do it alone; a conviction that starts with the importance I place on my relationships with clients.

My Approach:

I use a person-centered approach: seeing you in a context of unconditional positive regard. I combine this with the Solution Focused perspective of diagnosing strengths: my belief that your healthy self is the exception to the suffering caused by your mental health or substance use concerns. Your healthy self is always here, like the sun being covered by the clouds. And the more we focus there, the more it starts to emerge.

35 years as a poet has instilled in me a means to use creativity that is guided by Carl Jung’s Principle of Equivalence: psychic energy is never lost. If you stop using substances, for example—spending that amount of energy on the hustle of active addiction—that energy must go somewhere else. If we don't give it a new job, it will stay in your mind and body as anxiety or other mental health symptoms. Together, we will find a higher value for that energy, and be visionaries for our own happier, healthier lives. I feel it is also crucial that for marginalized groups, such as LGBTQIA+ and Black, Indigenous and People of Color. All therapy modalities must be integrated into the context of systemic forms of oppression, such as clients being victimized by perpetual microaggressions. My belief is that ~together~ our own imaginations can inspire tremendous energy for healing and transformation.

Areas of specialty:

  • Substance use 

  • Trauma, including PTSD

  • Depression & anxiety 

  • Family / relationship struggles

  • Grief and loss

Credentials:

With a Bachelor's degree in Family Social Science, and as a prelicensed LADC LPCC in the Integrated Behavioral Health Masters program at the University of Minnesota, I lead with evidenced-based therapy modalities. I was an intern for seven months in family and non-family programs at Fellowship Recovery, a 2.1 and 2.5 intensive outpatient program for those struggling with substance use disorders. I am currently working toward licensure under the supervision of Crystal Vilen, LICSW.