Markyse Bernadin, LCSW

Markyse Bernadin is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Florida. She combines practical care with a warm, down-to-earth style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship challenges. Markyse offers video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to make starting therapy easier.

Her approach centers on listening first and setting clear goals together. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered and mindfulness ideas to help people identify unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and try new behaviors. Sessions are empathetic and focused on practical steps rather than long lectures.

Markyse draws on five years of clinical experience and training at Barry University. She is working toward a PhD in social work while seeing clients, which keeps her up to date on current research and practice. She also brings personal perspective from growing up in South Florida and speaks both English and Haitian Creole.

In sessions she may suggest exercises between meetings, short mindfulness practices, or small behavior experiments to test new ways of handling stress. She sometimes incorporates music-based ideas, reflecting her interest in music and how it can help mood and focus.

People who do best with her tend to want practical tools and a warm, nonjudgmental therapist. She helps clients address issues like grief, parenting strain, identity concerns, intimacy-related problems, and life transitions in straightforward, usable ways.

Practical approaches for online healing

Markyse commonly blends cognitive behavioral work with client-centered listening and mindfulness tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a respectful relationship so clients can explore what matters to them. Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief attention and breathing practices to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with practical CBT exercises, adding mindfulness practices, or centering sessions on the client’s concerns and strengths as needs evolve.

Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for ongoing support between sessions and shorter, flexible conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use approaches that suit how a person prefers to connect.