About Marcela
Marcela Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, or depression. She listens without judgment and supports practical steps toward feeling better.
She builds a calm, open space that encourages honest talk about thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person, with straightforward strategies to manage symptoms and cope with change.
Background and approach
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Marcela draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address a wide range of concerns. These include parenting and family stress, relationship tensions, career strain, caregiving burnout, and challenges related to adoption or attachment.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, body image struggles, and identity issues like autism and Asperger syndrome. People bring different needs, from coping after loss to handling ongoing trauma or the daily weight of anxiety. Marcela will help sort priorities and agree on small, realistic goals.
Work together often includes learning new coping skills, practicing communication, and building routines that reduce overwhelm. Her approach is collaborative and practical. She explains options clearly and adapts methods to each person's life.
For anyone ready to take a step toward change, Marcela offers steady support and real tools to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on helping people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach centers on practical skills training to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning - learning breathing, grounding, and routine strategies to lower stress and increase control. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and difficult memories in a paced way, helping people make sense of painful events and reduce their day-to-day impact.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Marcela will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most workable. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face while staying in familiar surroundings. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to check in between sessions or to have therapy that fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and to use techniques in real life as issues come up.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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