About Marcela
Marcela Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 11 years of experience. She focuses on practical, evidence-based work to help people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and big life changes. Marcela creates a calm space where clients can talk through hard memories and learn skills to cope day to day.
She has worked in schools, hospitals, correctional facilities, and community mental health settings. That variety gave her experience with people from many backgrounds and situations.
Background and approach
She draws on that experience to tailor her approach to each person's needs. Marcela helps people handle anger, stress, and grief with straightforward strategies. She also supports those exploring identity and LGBT concerns, body image, or questions around gender dysphoria.
Coaching-style work is available for people focused on concrete goals and behavior change. Her practice also addresses chronic illness, caregiver strain, and aging-related concerns. She is familiar with issues that can come with long-term conditions and supports people in finding sustainable coping methods.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Marcela works collaboratively to set goals and build steps people can use between sessions. She aims for practical progress that fits each person’s life and rhythms.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Marcela often uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on teaching practical strategies for anxiety and depression, such as breaking problems into manageable steps and learning skills to reduce worry and improve mood. This helps when day-to-day tasks feel overwhelming.Another frequent method helps people process trauma and difficult memories at a pace that feels safe. That work centers on understanding triggers, developing grounding and distress-management skills, and practicing new responses to old patterns. It is aimed at reducing the power of painful memories over daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what fits the client's goals and preferences. This collaborative style helps match methods to each person's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to send brief updates between appointments. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to attend.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English