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

       Maybe a voice deep inside of you - perhaps even a whisper - is telling you that you’re tired of living with the pain of addiction. The pain of not being able to show up for your hobbies, passions, , your partner, yourself, or even your own kids. This voice may be in conflict with what drives your substance use and mental health challenges into cycles of despair - including trauma / PTSD, depression, anxiety, family / relationship struggles, and grief and loss - a conflict that may feel like unbearable pressures forced on you from the outside. This pressure, paradoxically, may be in the form of your own negative core beliefs. My belief is that healing comes from the opposite of this external pressure. 

I take the pressure off by embodying the opposite of your negative core beliefs: a gentle, soft-hearted, person-centered, judgment-free approach; I see you in a context of unconditional positive regard. I combine this with a Solution Focused perspective of amplifying strengths, so that together we can both define a vision of your healthy self as the exception to the suffering caused by these problems, and enact that vision. We want the voice of your healthy self to be in charge of your life. 

Your healthy self is always here, like a seed, or like the sun being covered by the clouds. And the more we focus there, from the inside out, instead of the outside in, the more it starts to emerge. 

This is true of the substance use and mental health counseling I provide in both individual and couples therapy: together we create a safe space to discuss family struggles and transitions such as family estrangement, distancing, and / or reconciliation. 

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 and experience from Fellowship Recovery, an intensive outpatient clinic for those struggling with substance use disorders.

    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 and / or struggle with mental health symptoms — 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 somatic / mental health problems. Together, we will find a higher value for that energy, and be visionaries for your own happier, healthier life. 

     I am currently working toward licensure at Grander Peace Counseling under the supervision of Crystal Vilen, LICSW.

I am available for online and in-person therapy in St. Paul, MN, for adults 18+, at the Dayton Avenue location.

Please reach out to me via email with any questions at mark@granderpeacecounseling.com, call 612-430-6484, or fill out my New Client Request form.