About Marcela
Marcela Mota Aversa welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or simply worn out by life’s demands. She speaks English and Spanish and listens without judgment. With a calm, practical style she helps people untangle stress, anxiety, grief, addiction concerns, and changes that come with aging or caregiving.
Marcela has two decades of experience and holds an MA and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential. She has lived in Massachusetts for many years and brings a generalist perspective to sessions rather than focusing on a single issue.
Background and approach
She often draws on people’s strengths and practical skills when planning what to do next. In sessions she works side by side with clients. The approach is collaborative - she asks questions, offers tools, and helps people try new ways of coping.
Therapy can include learning simple behavior changes, practicing mindful skills, and looking at values to guide decisions. She also uses straightforward coaching techniques when people want focused steps toward a goal. Marcela has long experience with recovery and understands how addiction and related challenges affect daily life.
She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, sleep trouble, low self-esteem, and career crossroads. Her work includes attention to multicultural concerns and immigration-related stress. She favors teletherapy and believes remote sessions can be efficient and effective.
People can expect a welcoming, down-to-earth conversation aimed at small, workable changes and clearer next steps.
Therapeutic approaches that fit remote care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their core values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood shifts.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try strategies together, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances short-term relief with longer-term change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people work face to face from wherever is convenient. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work after a move or change in schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish