Dr. Ron Muchnick, LMFT

Dr. Ron Muchnick is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of combined clinical, academic, and consulting experience. He has served as a professor, consultant, director of a counseling center, clinical supervisor, and practicing therapist for individuals, couples, and families, bringing a long-standing commitment to helping people navigate relationship and life challenges.

Working from a systemic or family-systems perspective, Dr. Muchnick addresses issues such as relationship conflicts, family stress, depression, ADHD, parenting challenges, anxiety, substance use concerns, and the impact these problems have on close relationships. He emphasizes practical coping skills and flexibility to help couples and families adapt to life cycle changes, including divorce and blended-family dynamics.

His therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and inviting, designed to support individuals and families in accessing strengths, creating possibilities, and achieving personal goals. Dr. Muchnick integrates solution-focused strategies with narrative, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, and motivational interviewing approaches to tailor interventions to each person or family.

Beyond clinical work, he founded Parent University, a grant program for school districts aimed at helping parents and children address educational and relational difficulties. He is also the founder of Solution Focus Consulting, which provides executive coaching, team building, and sales and marketing innovation, and he built a substantial clinical practice known as Counseling Solutions.

Dr. Muchnick has been a professor at several universities and a core faculty member at Capella University since 2001, where he previously served as Clinical Director of the Counselor Education Program. He holds an MS and PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University and an MA in Marketing. His publications and presentations focus on clinical practice and personal coaching, and his books include Self Coaching, How to S.O.L.V.E. personal and professional problems and At the End of the Day, both reflecting his interest in solution-focused work.

With a background that spans clinical practice, higher education, and more than three decades of experience in sales, marketing, and management, Dr. Muchnick combines therapeutic and organizational perspectives to support individuals, couples, and families in resolving problems and pursuing lasting change.