About Graciela
Graciela Medrano-Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of practice in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, anger, and depression. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and supportive.
Her approach begins by listening and treating people with respect and sensitivity. Sessions focus on the concerns a person brings and on practical ways to reduce distress. Conversations and plans are shaped around each person's life and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Background and approach
Graciela uses straightforward tools to help people handle intense feelings and painful memories. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thought patterns that feed anxiety and mood problems. She also uses trauma-focused work when past events keep showing up in daily life.
Another part of her work centers on meaning and values. Existential ideas help people consider purpose and choices during life transitions. Mindfulness practices are offered to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
She supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, guilt and shame, and struggles with isolation. Graciela adapts the pace and method of therapy to match what each person needs. Her goal is steady progress and clearer steps forward.
She offers sessions in English and welcomes people from outside the United States. Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, so therapy can fit into a busy life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and adapting to what matters most to the person. It emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and helping someone find their own solutions to relationship and life concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work fits the person's life and needs.
Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other and work through deeper material. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing reflection between sessions and help people fit therapy into busy days. These options increase flexibility and help therapy stay part of everyday routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English