About Marcela
Dr. Marcela Mejia welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She speaks both English and Spanish and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions.
Her first priority is helping each person feel understood and able to set clear, manageable goals. With 25 years in clinical work in Florida and Virginia, Dr. Mejia has worked in clinics and independent practice.
She has helped adults and adolescents with anxiety, depression, trauma, addictive behaviors, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She emphasizes teamwork between therapist and client to make steady progress. Her approach looks at the whole person. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change thinking and behavior patterns.
She also uses acceptance-based ideas and emotionally focused methods to deepen self-awareness and improve relationships. In sessions she helps people build coping skills for everyday stress and major transitions. She supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, or challenges tied to identity and intimacy.
She also addresses issues such as body image, codependency, and anger in practical ways. Dr. Mejia describes therapy as a collaborative process where progress comes from small, steady steps.
She helps clients identify priorities, try new ways of responding, and track what works. Her goal is to help people regain hope, make healthier choices, and move toward a more balanced life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate action. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a more meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and habits by teaching concrete skills for managing symptoms and testing new behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns.The therapist will work with each person to find the best fit among approaches. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together. Clients set goals and the therapist suggests strategies from different models so the work matches needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or to maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy weeks or when travel or caregiving makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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