About Marcela
Marcela Mota Aversa is a licensed mental health counselor with two decades of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a warm, down-to-earth presence for people looking for steady support. Marcela emphasizes collaboration and treats each person as the expert in their own life.
She uses a strengths-based, solution-focused style that aims to make therapy practical and useful. Sessions often focus on building coping skills for stress, anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, mood changes, and sleep difficulties.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns such as addiction, grief, eating issues, and work or career stress. Marcela draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior skills, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices. In session she offers companionship and guidance while helping people set concrete goals and try new strategies between meetings.
Her manner is straightforward and supportive rather than clinical. Marcela has lived in the Boston area for many years and brings experience from different settings to her practice. She describes herself as a generalist who pays close attention to each person's story and priorities.
People who prefer a collaborative, practical approach tend to find her style helpful. She supports those coping with life changes, caregiver stress, multicultural and immigration-related concerns, and long-term recovery issues. Marcela values teletherapy and offers flexible formats to fit different schedules and communication styles.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Marcela uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose values-based actions rather than getting stuck in them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and challenges that include persistent self-criticism.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, mood shifts, and symptoms that respond well to stepwise skill-building.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Marcela works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That collaborative process can involve trying one approach and adapting it over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone can be a good low-bandwidth option, and chat or text fits brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and usable tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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