About Marcela
Marcela Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD, and the strain of life changes. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at making it easier to talk about what’s hard and start practical steps forward.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name their concerns and try new coping strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, manageable steps, and tools people can use between meetings. Marcela listens for what feels most useful and adjusts her pace to each person. Her background includes many years working with individuals facing relationship strain, parenting stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and chronic health concerns. That experience helps when life events stir up old patterns or intense emotions. Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical problem-solving to address symptoms and day-to-day difficulties.
She helps clients build routines, improve focus, manage mood swings, and cope with loss or trauma. The work blends talking, skill practice, and planning for real-life situations. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom relief. One common approach she applies is skill-building for emotional regulation, which teaches concrete ways to manage intense feelings and reduce reactivity in stressful moments. This can help with anxiety, mood swings, and responses to trauma.Another key element is problem-solving and behavioral planning, which breaks down overwhelming tasks into small, doable steps. This method supports people dealing with ADHD, depression, and life transitions by improving routines, focus, and follow-through.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marcela works with each person to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. She checks in regularly to make sure the pace and tools match the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy or geographically dispersed people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or processing between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic work into daily life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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
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