About Mercedes
Mercedes Martinez-Hannon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and grief, and she helps people facing attachment wounds, guilt, shame and loneliness. Her style is calm and attentive, with an emphasis on helping people feel understood before moving forward.
She uses gentle body-centered skills alongside talk therapy to help people notice how their body holds stress. Those somatic methods aim to ease physical tension and make upsetting feelings easier to name.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine breathing, grounding, and talking through what’s happening in daily life. Mercedes emphasizes compassionate witnessing. That means a therapist listens closely and reflects what they notice so the person feels seen.
From there she helps people build small, practical steps to change patterns that keep anxiety and grief stuck. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. She checks in about what feels helpful and adjusts techniques when needed.
Over time she supports people to develop more self-compassion, better coping skills, and clearer ways to manage stress. Mercedes holds three years of clinical experience as an LMFT in California. She offers sessions that fit into busy lives and works with clients to set goals that matter to them.
Body-informed approaches and flexible online care
Mercedes blends somatic-informed work with mindful talking therapies. Somatic techniques focus on how the body holds stress and teach simple ways to release physical tension, which can help with anxiety and trauma-related symptoms. She also uses mindful awareness and grounding strategies that help people notice emotions without being overwhelmed, useful for grief and isolation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before then try methods that suit each person. Adjustments are made over time so the plan fits how someone responds in real sessions.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people integrate therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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