About Marcela
Marcela Mota Aversa is a licensed mental health counselor with two decades of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Marcela approaches therapy as a collaborative process where the client is the expert in their own story.
She offers a warm, practical style that aims to find workable steps for day-to-day life. Sessions tend to focus on skills people can use right away, along with exploring deeper patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Marcela describes her work as strength based and solution oriented, and she often draws on mindfulness and behavior strategies to reduce distress. Marcela was born in Mexico City and has lived in Boston for the last 26 years. She has more than 20 years of overall clinical experience, including four years working in Massachusetts.
In addition, she has 16 years in 12-step based recovery, which informs her understanding of addiction and recovery processes. Her background makes her comfortable supporting people coping with life changes, grief, substance concerns, and caregiving stress. She also helps people with sleeping problems, self-esteem, and work-related strain.
Her approach is generalist rather than narrowly focused, similar to a family primary care clinician who listens broadly and refers when specialized care is needed. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish and Marcela welcomes people from different cultural backgrounds.
She encourages questions about how therapy will work and invites prospective clients to share their story so they can build a collaborative plan together.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Marcela commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her sessions. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety and life changes. CBT focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns and practicing concrete skills to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed so therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, by phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are close to an in-person visit and let the therapist and client use exercises together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Live chat and text options make it possible to check in between sessions or hold shorter, more frequent conversations. These formats aim to make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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