Marcela Mota Aversa
Compassionate therapist guiding practical change
LMHC Massachusetts
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Marcela
Marcela Mota Aversa brings twenty years of clinical experience to her work and speaks both English and Spanish, offering therapy from a collaborative, strengths-based perspective.
Background and approach
She views clients as experts in their own lives and partners with them to identify practical paths forward, drawing on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-informed techniques.
Marcela emphasizes companionship and guidance while helping clients build skills for coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. Raised in Mexico City and based in Massachusetts for over two decades, she holds an MA and practices as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC, LMHC5000512).
Her background includes long-term recovery experience and work across varied concerns including eating and body-image issues, relationship difficulties, family of origin dynamics, caregiver stress, and multicultural or immigration-related struggles. Marcela describes herself as a generalist who enjoys learning people’s stories and supporting goals related to mood, sleep, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes.
She offers teletherapy in multiple formats and encourages prospective clients to begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire to schedule sessions based on availability. Marcela approaches each therapeutic relationship with respect, practical tools, and a commitment to helping clients find their own direction.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Practice
Marcela often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday difficulties by focusing on practical skills and problem solving. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which emphasizes values-guided action and learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings, a helpful approach for issues like chronic worry, avoidance, and life transitions. Additionally, her work includes client-centered and mindfulness-informed elements that prioritize empathetic listening and present-moment awareness to support emotional regulation and self-compassion.
Determining the right approach is a collaborative process. She partners with each person to explore goals, preferences, and what techniques feel most useful, and she adapts methods over time to fit changing needs and circumstances. Clients are invited to experiment with tools and give feedback so the plan evolves responsively.
Online therapy with her is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different lifestyles and time zones. These formats make it easier to access consistent care, practice skills between sessions, and fit therapy into busy schedules while working with a licensed professional who tailors interventions to the client’s concerns and goals.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Massachusetts
Languages
English, Spanish