About Marcela
Marcela Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and other common struggles. She offers straightforward, practical care and focuses on helping people feel heard and regain control over daily life. She has worked in schools, hospitals, correctional settings, and community mental health.
That variety shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person’s situation. Sessions aim to be grounded and goal-focused, with simple tools you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Marcela supports adults coping with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma and grief. She also helps with self-esteem, life changes, anger, and questions around gender and sexual identity. Coaching-style conversations are available for people who want structured support toward personal goals.
In sessions she listens first, then suggests clear steps to try. That might include short behavior changes, emotion regulation techniques, or ways to reframe negative thinking. Progress is tracked in small, practical ways so people can notice real differences over time.
Virtual appointments are offered through video, phone, live chat, or messaging. Marcela works with people across Texas and accepts a range of insurance plans. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session to set goals together.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Marcela commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and managing strong emotions. Cognitive-style work helps people spot thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and depression, and then replace them with more balanced options. This is useful for panic, worry, and low mood.She also teaches emotion regulation and coping skills that reduce stress in the moment. Those strategies include breathing and grounding techniques, short behavioral experiments, and ways to structure daily routines to lower reactivity. These tools are helpful for trauma reactions, anger, and intense stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Marcela will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to fit their goals and daily life. Together they decide what to try first and adjust the plan based on what works.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual and verbal cues for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging make it easier to check in between meetings and to fit support into a busy day. These formats give flexibility so people can get steady help while juggling work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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