Marcela Fernandez
Healing through steady, practical support
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marcela
Marcela Fernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or the aftermath of trauma and abuse. She aims to create an open space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings.
Taking the first step toward change can feel scary, and she offers steady support through that process. In sessions she focuses on practical ways to manage emotions and daily challenges.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person, then works with them to try small, manageable changes. Conversations are straightforward and grounded in real-life steps rather than abstract theory. The goal is to build coping skills clients can use between meetings.
Her work also addresses self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Additional areas she attends to include adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and caregiving strain. She has helped people facing chronic illness, body image worries, eating-related problems, and the impacts of divorce or separation.
Marcela brings practical experience to each session and a calm presence that helps people feel heard. She tailors the pace to each person and focuses on goals clients name themselves. Sessions are offered in English and take place through multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
She is licensed in Texas as TX LPC 63717 and integrates evidence-based techniques into her work. Her approach centers on collaboration, steady guidance, and helping people build skills that matter in daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Marcela uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to everyday problems. One common approach she uses focuses on teaching practical coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as breathing strategies, activity planning, and step-by-step problem solving. These are short exercises people can practice between sessions to lower immediate distress and build confidence.She also draws on trauma-informed methods that prioritize safety and pacing. This involves helping clients name stressful memories or reactions at a tolerable pace, then developing tools to manage overwhelming feelings. That work is gradual and paced to each persons readiness.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide what to try first, then adjust over time based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to set realistic steps and track progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, remove travel needs, and allow follow-up between meetings. For many people, meeting by video or phone offers the same focused support as in-person sessions while providing greater flexibility.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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