About Graciela
Graciela Medrano-Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and addresses related concerns like anger and depression. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at making the first steps feel doable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a conversation style that centers the person in the room. Sessions are shaped around each client's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
Graciela listens for patterns such as abandonment, attachment issues, or recurring guilt and then helps people notice how those patterns affect daily life. Graciela also works with trauma and post-traumatic stress concerns. She brings trauma-focused and mindfulness approaches into sessions to help people reduce intense reactions and build steady coping skills.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test more balanced ways of thinking. People who reach out often want practical tools and a clear path forward. Graciela helps create steps clients can try between sessions, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
That practical focus includes attention to caregiver stress, chronic illness challenges, and feelings of isolation. She offers support for multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and life transitions such as midlife questions or finding life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients as well.
Online approaches that meet anxiety and trauma needs
Graciela commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing more balanced ways of thinking. This approach helps with anxiety, panic attacks, and mood challenges by giving concrete tools to change how situations are interpreted.She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy to address reactions tied to past harm. This approach helps people reduce intense emotional responses and build skills for feeling steadier in daily life. Mindfulness techniques are often blended in to teach present-moment noticing and self-calming skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then recommend starting steps. Plans are adjusted over time so the work fits what actually helps you make progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face-to-face while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging provide short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make scheduling more flexible for busy days, caregiving demands, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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