About Marcelo
Marcelo Gonzalez begins with a focus on practical support for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. He is an Illinois LCPC with ten years of professional experience. He aims to create an encouraging, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through identity, stress, and life transitions.
He usually starts sessions by listening closely to what matters most to the person in front of him. This helps him shape simple, goal-focused steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He often uses strategies that help people notice what matters to them and act on those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Marcelo works with concerns such as anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and challenges tied to identity and acculturation. He also supports people with career decisions, intimacy and relationship questions, ADHD-related struggles, and burnout from caregiving or high-demand jobs.
He is experienced addressing issues linked to sexual culture, non-monogamy, and HIV / AIDS as part of a broader focus on sexuality and identity. His style is direct, affirming, and culturally aware. He pays attention to how race, culture, immigration, and gender shape daily life and choices.
Conversations are practical and grounded - focused on small changes that can make daily life easier. Clients can expect straightforward tools from approaches like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance-based techniques, and mindfulness. Marcelo pairs those methods with motivational and narrative ideas to help people clarify purpose and move forward at their own pace.
How Marcelo’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when tough thoughts show up. It’s useful for life transitions, anxiety, and questions about purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. That approach often helps with anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and respected first; that steady listening creates room to try new ways of relating and making decisions.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Marcelo treats the choice of approach as a collaboration - he listens to goals, tries different techniques, and adjusts based on what helps. Clients and therapist check in about what’s working and change course when needed.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good when seeing expressions matters, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat work well for brief check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to keep continuity across busy schedules and different time zones while using the same therapeutic methods discussed above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English