About Graciela
Graciela Dunn greets people with warmth and straightforward support. She is a California-licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of professional experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations easy to follow and practical.
Her sessions focus on creating an open space where feelings can be named and examined without judgment. She helps people sort through grief and loss and work on self-esteem and motivation.
How Graciela works
Practical steps and small changes are emphasized so progress feels doable between meetings. Graciela brings two decades of experience to common concerns like panic attacks, mood disorders, and chronic stress. She also addresses more specific struggles such as abandonment or attachment issues, caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, and problems with communication or control.
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different responses. People dealing with divorce, separation, guilt, shame, isolation, or questions about life purpose can expect a steady, compassionate approach. Graciela supports exploration of forgiveness, impulsivity, and relational dynamics affected by narcissism.
Sessions are tailored to what each person finds most useful. Her background combines long-term clinical work with a focus on practical coping skills. She encourages small experiments and checks progress together so goals stay clear and achievable.
What Graciela works with
The areas below are the ones Graciela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Graciela uses proven therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn to identify and respond differently to anxious thoughts and panic symptoms, teaching coping steps to reduce intensity and interrupt the panic cycle. Another approach centers on working through grief, loss, and complicated emotions by naming feelings, honoring the loss, and developing routines that support gradual healing.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then try techniques that fit those priorities. This is a collaborative process with regular check-ins to see what is helping and what should be adjusted.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can support short updates and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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