About Mercides
Mercides Palmer is a licensed professional counselor in Maryland with an MD and an LCPC and three years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people struggling with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Her style is straightforward and warm.
She aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults alike. In sessions she prioritizes an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard things.
Background and approach
Conversations include checking current struggles, identifying patterns, and setting simple goals to try between meetings. She uses approaches that build awareness of emotions and relationships while teaching skills to manage intense feelings and improve daily functioning. Mercides blends ideas from attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered care.
That mix helps people notice how early relationships affect daily behavior, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and practice new ways of relating. She also draws on dialectical skills when emotion regulation is a central problem. Her counseling can address mood disorders, issues around life purpose, workplace stress, and self-harm thoughts alongside young adult transitions and disruptive mood concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules. Starting therapy begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Mercides aims to work collaboratively so clients leave each session with one or two practical steps to try before the next meeting.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Mercides uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work helps people notice connection needs, repair recurring conflicts, and build steadier ways of relating. She pairs that with client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following each person’s agenda so sessions feel relevant and respectful.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts that fuel anxiety or low mood and to test small, practical changes that lead to different outcomes. Together these approaches aim to increase self-understanding and give tools for handling overwhelming feelings. Finding the right mix is a joint process - she will work with each person to pick strategies that match their goals and preferences.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text are helpful for shorter check-ins, coaching between appointments, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into school, work, and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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