About Marcela
Marcela Tschang is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship troubles, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports clients navigating LGBT issues, sexuality, and women’s health topics. Marcela speaks English and Spanish and brings six years of practice to her work.
Her sessions focus on straightforward conversation and practical steps. She tailors dialogue and goals to each person, using methods that match their needs.
Background and approach
Marcela aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build clearer habits. She may also use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for people processing distressing memories.
These approaches are chosen to meet specific concerns and comfort levels. Marcela pays attention to issues like attachment patterns, body image, and communication problems. She also supports work-related stress, feelings of isolation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Conversations include concrete tools and small steps to try between meetings. People who work with Marcela can expect a collaborative process that respects their pace and values. She emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while helping clients set realistic goals.
The work is aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches to healing and how online therapy fits
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking that increase worry or sadness and then try small changes in thoughts and behaviors to feel better. It is often used for stress, anxiety, low mood, and problems with self-esteem.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, focuses on reducing the hold of painful memories that keep causing strong emotional reactions. It can be helpful for people who find past events continue to disrupt daily life and relationships.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels workable for the client. Together they decide whether to focus on thought and behavior changes, address past memories, or combine methods over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility that makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls let people use facial cues and more natural conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work when video is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging allow short check-ins and written reflection between meetings. These options make it possible to keep steady contact and try tools in real life between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish