About Marcela
Marcela Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 13 years of experience to her practice in Texas. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and depression. Marcela focuses on making it easier for someone to start talking about what feels hard.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space so thoughts and feelings can be shared openly. Sessions are conversational and practical. Marcela listens closely and helps people identify small steps they can try between appointments.
Background and approach
Her work often covers relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and family issues, as well as career stress and self-esteem struggles. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and medical-related challenges like chronic illness and pain. Marcela has experience with adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, and autism-related issues.
She also addresses eating and body-image struggles, forgiveness work, and the aftermath of separation or divorce. People who choose her can expect collaborative goal-setting and straightforward strategies aimed at improving daily coping. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to fit different schedules.
Taking the first step can feel difficult, and Marcela aims to make that step as clear and manageable as possible.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical work. One common approach she uses helps people process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on daily life by breaking problems into smaller, manageable parts and practicing new responses. Another approach centers on coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and activity-based strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve routine functioning. Choosing the right way of working happens together. The therapist discusses options with each person, considers their goals and preferences, and adapts methods over time. That collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel most useful and how to adjust them as progress is made. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls let people see and hear the therapist for a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, quick support, or maintaining contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other demands.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English