About Mercides
Mercides Palmer is a licensed professional counselor in Maryland with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related concerns. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at making it easier to start a therapy conversation.
She builds sessions around listening first. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental space to talk about what matters to them.
How Mercides works
Mercides pays attention to how attachment patterns and past losses shape current struggles. She also addresses practical problems like workplace stress and questions about life purpose. Therapy often includes learning new skills to manage mood and strong emotions.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Sessions can also focus on values and meaning when people feel stuck or question their direction. Mercides aims to tailor the pace and focus to each person.
She combines careful listening with structured techniques so sessions feel useful and approachable. Parents and young adults often find this mix helpful when facing big changes or persistent patterns. If someone is unsure how to begin, she guides them through setting small goals and practical steps.
The work is collaborative and goal-focused, with attention to patterns that repeat in relationships and daily life.
Mercides lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Mercides works with
The areas below are the ones Mercides selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions using this approach look at patterns in close relationships and help people develop new ways of relating and trusting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and routines. It is often used for mood, anxiety, and self-esteem struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and reducing self-harm or impulsive behaviors; online DBT-style work concentrates on teaching emotion regulation and distress-tolerance techniques.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to goals and try different methods to see what fits. Together they will pick strategies based on the person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than assuming one method will work for everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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