About Marcela
Marcela Mota Aversa greets people with calm, practical support. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, sleep problems, mood concerns and life transitions. Marcela speaks English and Spanish and brings twenty years of experience to sessions as a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC).
She views therapy as a collaborative process. Marcela treats each person as the expert in their own story and offers guidance, companionship, and practical tools.
How Marcela works
Sessions are solution-oriented and strength-based, with an emphasis on small, doable changes that fit everyday life. Her work often combines mindfulness, cognitive strategies, and acceptance skills to reduce unhelpful thinking and improve daily routines. She also draws on client-centered principles to build a warm, respectful space where someone can talk things through without judgment.
For people coping with addiction, she brings long-term personal recovery experience into the room alongside clinical skills. Marcela practices as a generalist and helps people address caregiving stress, family of origin issues, body image concerns, career pressures, and adjustment to aging. She is comfortable discussing multicultural and immigration-related challenges and supports people through feeling isolated or stuck.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on the therapist's availability.
Marcela lists 9 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
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes by shifting attention from struggle to meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and coping with stress. Mindfulness Therapy cultivates present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can help with stress, cravings, and sleep.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean focusing on values and acceptance some weeks, practicing cognitive skills other weeks, or combining mindfulness with problem-solving to fit the situation.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work with a licensed professional. Video sessions approximate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a break, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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