About Alejandra
Alejandra Mercado is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and related life challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and brings ten years of clinical experience to conversations about overwhelming emotions and difficult life changes. Alejandra favors a straightforward, compassionate style.
She listens carefully, asks practical questions, and focuses on small, doable steps people can use between sessions. Sessions are collaborative - she works with each person to set goals that feel meaningful and achievable.
Background and approach
Her approach combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods. That mix is used to address panic, substance use, chronic pain, communication problems, and feelings of isolation. She also pays attention to how early relationships and attachment shape current patterns.
Alejandra has a long-standing interest in cultural and immigration issues. She supports people from multicultural backgrounds and those navigating identity or migration-related stress. She emphasizes respect for each person’s story and adapts her style to fit cultural values and lived experience.
In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and build self-compassion. Practical tools, breathing and grounding techniques, cognitive strategies, and values-based actions are commonly used. The aim is steady progress toward a clearer sense of purpose and improved day-to-day functioning.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Alejandra uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a way that fits online formats. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking actions that match those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings, which can help with anxiety and life purpose work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear exercises and homework that translate well to video and messaging sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk through your needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. Decisions about which methods to use are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works well for brief check-ins or notes between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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