About Mabel
Mabel Castro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, and stress. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier day to day. Her approach is warm and direct so clients can talk about what matters without feeling judged.
She named her practice Meraki Therapy to reflect a belief that therapy involves creativity and personal investment. Early sessions dig into what is getting in the way of wellbeing.
Background and approach
Mabel uses clear goals and simple exercises so progress is easy to track. Mabel often works with people facing relationship pain, intimacy issues, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. She also helps those dealing with caregiver strain, blended family concerns, fertility and fatherhood issues, and work-related stress like first responder challenges.
Her style blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and mindfulness tools. Clients can expect talk, reflection, and short exercises to try between sessions. She emphasizes honest communication and practical homework when useful.
Mabel holds LCSW licenses in Florida (FL LCSW SW16444) and Pennsylvania (PA LCSW CW023354). Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on actions that match personal values. This can help when life changes or difficult emotions make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses small exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and building new coping skills.
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person leads the pace and topics. This approach is useful when people need a steady, accepting space to make sense of their experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. This collaborative process helps identify which tools and exercises fit each person best.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging suits quick reflections or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, Delaware
- Languages
- English