About Graciela
Graciela "Gracie" Wangsnes is a California licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of professional experience. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Gracie blends practical, evidence-informed methods with a person-centered attitude. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values.
Background and approach
She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills for strong emotions. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. Gracie listens for what matters most to each person and tailors talk and exercises to fit individual needs.
She often works on building self-esteem, managing social anxiety and phobia, and addressing body image concerns. Her background includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, guilt and shame, and symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress. She also helps with family-related stress and relationship strain by supporting an individual’s coping and communication skills.
Gracie offers practical strategies for daily life alongside supportive conversations. She encourages clients to notice progress, try new behaviors, and adjust plans as needed. She speaks both English and Spanish to provide care in the language someone prefers.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward those values even when anxiety is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. Both approaches are commonly used for stress, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gracie will listen to a person’s goals, preferences, and daily challenges and then suggest techniques from ACT, CBT, or DBT as appropriate. That decision is collaborative and may change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to join. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when a full session isn’t possible. These options offer flexibility to practice skills and maintain continuity of care across different days and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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