About Marcela
Marcela Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults manage anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and life changes. Marcela aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and can begin to move forward.
She has worked in schools, hospitals, correctional settings, and community mental health programs. That variety gave her experience with many backgrounds and life situations.
How Marcela works
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people cope and build new skills. Sessions include talk-based work and skill practice. Marcela helps clients identify patterns, try new ways of responding, and practice skills between sessions.
She also offers coaching for people who want structured support toward specific goals. Her focus areas include trauma and abuse, anger, LGBT concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and other related struggles.
Marcela combines practical tools with steady support to help people make sustainable changes. Virtual appointments are available in English. Marcela accepts various session formats so people can pick what fits their schedule and needs.
To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an appointment.
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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Marcela draws on practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on symptom relief and skill building. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, helping people notice triggers, slow down strong reactions, and practice breathing and grounding exercises that can be used between sessions. Another approach focuses on trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful events at a manageable pace and reduce the ways past experiences interfere with daily life.Choosing the right way to work together is collaborative. Marcela will talk with clients about their goals and what feels most comfortable, then try approaches that match their needs. Over time she adjusts techniques based on what helps most, so therapy evolves with each person's progress and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging offers shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and make it easier to keep consistent appointments.
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