Marcela Mota Aversa

Marcela Mota Aversa welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, angry, or stuck and want practical help. She keeps work straightforward and conversational. Marcela listens in both English and Spanish and invites clients to shape the goals for therapy together. She identifies strengths and builds on what is already working in daily life.

Marcela has a Master of Arts and practices as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, with about 20 years of experience in clinical settings. She has lived in the Boston area for over two decades and brings long-term recovery experience to her work, including 16 years involved with 12-step based recovery. She describes her style as collaborative, strength-based, and solution-oriented.

Sessions emphasize clear steps clients can use between meetings. Marcela uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered methods, and mindfulness practices to address stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, depression, sleep problems, relationship issues, and more. She frames therapy as companionship and guidance rather than directives.

She also supports people with life transitions, caregiving stress, body image and eating concerns, ADHD, grief, multicultural or immigration-related stress, and career or purpose questions. Marcela sees clients as the experts in their own stories and helps them apply practical skills to real-life situations.

To begin, she asks people to clarify what they want to change and then maps out small, achievable steps. She encourages straightforward conversation and aims to help people build tools they can use long after sessions end.

How Marcela’s approaches translate to online work

Many of Marcela’s methods lend themselves well to online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values, which can be practiced between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; it often uses short exercises and homework that fit well into weekly online meetings. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.

Finding the right approach happens together. Marcela collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, preferences, and daily routines. She treats therapy as a partnership and adjusts methods as someone’s needs change over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It may reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins during a workday, and make it simpler to use skill practice in real-world moments. Because session formats are not listed here, confirm current options before booking so you know how meetings will be scheduled and delivered.