About Marcelo
Marcelo Gonzalez is an Illinois-licensed clinician (LCPC) with ten years of professional experience working with a wide range of life challenges. He partners with people facing anxiety, stress, self-esteem concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and career transitions, bringing a holistic perspective that emphasizes empathy and encouragement.
Background and approach
Marcelo also works with clients navigating ADHD, compassion fatigue, and identity-related struggles including LGBT and multicultural concerns. His approach blends evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered techniques along with mindfulness and motivational strategies.
Marcelo aims to create an affirming, nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can examine patterns, barriers, and values to find new ways forward. He pays close attention to how intersecting identities - including race, gender, nationality, and culture - shape experience and meaning in daily life.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that focuses on practical skills, exploration of life purpose, and support for complex topics such as polyamory, kink and alternative sex culture, HIV/AIDS, immigration-related stress, and financial or midlife transitions. Marcelo helps people move from feeling stuck toward clearer goals and greater self-understanding.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, life transitions, and challenges where meaning and values matter.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by practicing new skills and experiments between sessions. It is often useful for managing anxiety, mood-related concerns, and stressors that affect daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Marcelo collaborates with each client to determine whether ACT, CBT, client-centered methods, mindfulness techniques, or motivational interviewing best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He adapts strategies over time based on what proves most helpful in session.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to access care from different locations. These formats support ongoing work on skills, values-based goals, and emotional processing while allowing clients to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable and functional for their life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English