About Mercy
Mercy Estevez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida. She has 12 years of experience helping people cope with depression, grief, addiction, stress, and ADHD. Mercy offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on practical change that fits each person's life.
Her sessions are client-centered. She listens first, and helps people name clear goals. Mercy uses motivational techniques to help people find their own reasons to change.
Background and approach
She works with people on issues like relationship strain, career stress, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. Mercy incorporates mindfulness to help people manage strong emotions and reduce anxiety. She also uses solution-focused tools to create step-by-step plans for short-term progress.
When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she brings trauma-focused methods to address safety and healing at a manageable pace. She speaks both English and Spanish, and tailors her approach to each person's background and needs. Mercy aims to create sessions that are straightforward and useful, not full of jargon.
People leave with small, practical steps they can try between meetings. Mercy emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients take an active role in planning goals and tracking progress.
Her goal is to help people move from feeling stuck to making steady, realistic changes.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports the choices the person makes. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, goal-driven pace.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and reactivity. These exercises are easy to practice during video sessions and can be assigned as short daily habits. Motivational Interviewing focuses on exploring a person's own reasons for change and strengthening commitment through focused conversation; it fits well into brief phone check-ins or text-based coaching between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Mercy works with each person to identify what feels most helpful based on their goals, concerns, and preferred pace. She will adjust methods over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or follow-up between meetings. These options allow flexibility while using the same clinical approaches to guide progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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