About Mercedelli
Mercedelli Graciano helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and low self-esteem. She guides clients through family conflict, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and issues related to identity and LGBT concerns.
Mercedelli is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with four years of clinical experience and offers services in English and Spanish. Her style is direct and compassionate.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Conversations are shaped by what matters most to each person, not a one-size approach. She aims to make starting therapy less intimidating and easier to fit into everyday life.
Mercedelli uses a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods. That means talking through present problems, practicing new ways of responding, and identifying values that guide decisions. For relationship concerns she draws on techniques from the Gottman Method to improve communication and manage conflict.
She works with a broad range of concerns such as abandonment, codependency, blended family issues, infidelity, isolation, and life purpose questions. Sessions also address personality-related patterns like avoidant or dependent traits when those get in the way of daily functioning. Therapy with her is tailored to each person’s goals and pace.
She encourages building self-awareness, self-care routines, and small habit changes that add up over time. Appointments are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text options to match different needs and schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and finding direction after big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication and managing conflict in relationships through practical exercises and structured conversation techniques.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals and try methods that fit the client’s needs and preferences. Sessions can adapt over time if a different mix of techniques would help more.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and do interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish