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Counseling for personal struggles, relationship stresses, and life transitions

Do you feel that your situation has become a high-stakes win / lose proposition where change may feel necessary, but the risks appear unbearable?

"Relationships, including with ourselves, can thrive with continual renegotiation and re-imagining"

MY PRACTICE

Welcome! I offer counseling for personal struggles, relationship stresses, and life transitions, individually or together. Through a relational approach, we can explore and strengthen your interpersonal bonds and work together to help you navigate high-stakes situations to strengthen your most important connections, including with yourself. Attachment is a key part of my work with romantic / sexual partners and with families. Being newly seen and heard in more complete ways can be transformative and hope-inducing. Life is as much about how we tell our stories, to ourselves and to others, as it is the content of these narratives.

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In-person in downtown Columbia and online across South Carolina for state residents.

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I look forward to hearing from you and do, at present, have limited availabilities.

A photograph of therapist Mark Stewart, Ed.S, LMFT-A
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THERAPY SERVICES

Cascade Therapy offers a range of services including individual counseling, couples therapy, and family therapy. Each session is tailored to support the emotional well-being and growth of clients. Personal struggles, relationship stresses, and life transitions (and communication challenges in general) are a particular focus of my practice. This often begins with restoring trust, in ourselves as much as with others of critical importance in our lives.

Specific dynamics include Individual Counseling, Couples Therapy, Family Conflict, Marriage / Premarital Counseling, Blended Families, Parenting & Co-Parenting, Separation, Divorce, Negotiating Relationships, Infidelity, Lost Connection, Sexual Compatibility, and Alternative Relationships are some of the relational interactions upon which my practice focuses, whether these are explored individually, or collaboratively as partners.
 
Maintaining a safe-place atmosphere where everyone’s feelings, voices and person are respected and valued is a primary goal. I hold an Ed.S graduate degree from the University of South Carolina, focused in marriage, couples and family therapy. Before that, my career involved decades of mediation and collaboration experience in high-stakes corporate negotiations.

A narrative therapy lens informs my approach to counseling in general. Another evidence-based therapy utilized is Emotionally-Focused Therapy and I have completed my advanced level training in this approach and am continuing toward full certification.

Reach Out When Ready

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Cascade Therapy, LLC
Mark Stewart, Ed.S, LMFT-A

1817 Pickens Street
Columbia, SC 29201
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803.856.2403
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cascadetherapyllc@gmail.com

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