Mark Dooley received his Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Seattle in 2002, and earned a Master’s in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College in 1993. Mark is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (WA license number LH00009203), Child Mental Health Specialist, WA State Approved Clinical Supervisor, WA State Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Provider, and a Certified Neurodivergent Affirming Clinician. In 2023, he surpassed 28,000 hours of direct psychotherapy, including psychiatric inpatient, intensive outpatient, integrated healthcare, wilderness, in-home, and private practice settings. Mark recently presented his Discovery/Acceptance/Integration/Expression model of Autistic identity to the Cultural Autistic Studies at Yale Autism Ethnography Project.

Since 1986, Mark Dooley has worked and studied in the fields of advocacy, activism, social justice, ecology, and mental health. Along with his clinical training and experience, Mark's consultation utilizes graduate research on mutually healing relationships with nature, and is informed by mindfulness, travel, fitness, friendship, and family.

In a “now everything finally makes sense” moment, Mark Dooley was evaluated for and diagnosed with Autism March 2019. Since this pivotal personal and professional event, he has been enthusiastically, phenomenologically, and existentially studying life on the Autism Spectrum.

Mark Dooley’s own Autistic journey inspires his wonder for our multifaceted human experience, abiding appreciation of individual uniqueness, and facilitation of interpersonal connectivity. These qualities infuse Mark’s care and collaboration with his clients and their cultures.

When Mark speaks of Autism, he speaks in honor and recognition of unseen Autistic elders passed on both sides of his family tree. When Mark speaks of Autism, he speaks in appreciation of all Autistics.