About Marcela
Marcela Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 13 years of professional experience. She focuses on common and painful concerns like stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Marcela creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what feels hard.
She emphasizes practical steps and steady support while clients figure out what helps them most. In sessions she works collaboratively to identify coping skills and immediate strategies for distressing moments.
How Marcela works
She also helps people explore patterns that affect relationships, self-esteem, and career choices. Marcela supports those dealing with parenting strain, family problems, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. She has experience assisting people facing chronic illness, trauma-related concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach includes listening carefully, asking clear questions, and offering straightforward tools to manage mood and stress. She helps with relationship and commitment struggles, body image and eating issues, and problems tied to family of origin. Marcela also supports people navigating divorce, blended family dynamics, and recovery after disasters.
Marcela works with adults who want to improve daily coping and long-term wellbeing. She can guide clients through ADHD-related challenges, attachment issues, and first responder stress. Sessions aim to balance immediate relief with longer-term learning so people feel more capable between appointments.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
What Marcela works with
The areas below are the ones Marcela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear skills and real-world changes. One common method emphasizes learning coping skills to manage anxiety and stress in the moment - breathing, grounding, and simple behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and painful losses at a pace the client can tolerate, helping people make sense of what happened and reduce its hold on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will review your goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit your situation. That process is collaborative and may shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy or complicated schedules. Video calls allow visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy in ways that fit regular life.
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