About Marcela
Dr. Marcela Mejia helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or major life changes. She greets clients in English and Spanish and offers a calm, steady presence for those seeking clearer direction.
Her name and long experience aim to reassure people who need practical support and steady guidance. She has practiced clinical psychology for 25 years in Florida and Virginia and holds credentials as a VA Psychologist and a Florida Psychologist.
How Marcela works
Her background includes clinic and independent practice work where she developed skills addressing depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She draws on many approaches to match each person’s needs. In sessions she focuses on teamwork and concrete goals.
Conversations center on what matters most now and on skills that make everyday life easier. She helps people build coping strategies, manage intense emotions, and face change with more confidence. Her work is also informed by attention to identity and stress that come from caregiving, illness, grief, or job and role transitions.
She supports people working through body image, attachment, control, and communication problems. Issues connected to ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue are also within her focus. Therapy combines practical tools with space to reflect on meaning and values.
Dr. Mejia aims to help people reduce distress, strengthen relationships with themselves and others, and make choices that fit their lives.
Marcela lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | VA Psychologist, FL Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an open, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports their own problem solving and growth.Choosing the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she tailors techniques and pacing so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions or want brief, timely support. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and daily life.
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