Marcela Gonzales, LPC

Marcela Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship concerns. Marcela aims to help people build practical tools and make steady changes that fit their daily lives.

Her background includes work in education, hospitals, correctional settings, and community mental health. That range gives her experience with a variety of life circumstances and stressors. She has supported people dealing with grief, life transitions, and challenges tied to identity and sexual orientation.

Marcela also addresses anger, low self-esteem, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver strain. Additional focus areas include concerns related to aging, body image, and issues such as domestic violence and first responder stress. She lists jealousy among the topics she can help people talk through.

She offers virtual sessions and accepts a variety of insurance plans. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and costs vary with location and therapist availability.

To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability. Marcela approaches each person with practical strategies and steady support to help them move forward.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach she applies helps people learn concrete strategies for managing anxiety and stress, like breathing techniques, graded exposure to difficult situations, and step-by-step problem solving. These methods are useful when anxiety, panic, or persistent worry make daily tasks harder.

Another approach emphasizes working through past hurt and trauma at a tolerable pace, helping clients name difficult experiences and build tools to reduce their impact on current life. This work often includes emotion regulation and building safer routines for coping with triggers.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Virtual appointments are available, but specific session formats should be confirmed before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a person's week. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework for remote work so progress can continue between sessions.