Mercedelli Graciano, LMHC

Mercedelli Graciano is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with four years of counseling experience. She provides services in English and Spanish and works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, self-esteem concerns, depression, trauma, grief, intimacy questions, parenting strains, career confusion, and codependency patterns.

She is a self-published author and has written about feelings and connection. Her work often centers on building self-awareness, practicing self-care, and strengthening self-control while recognizing the continued need for companionship and community. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings.

Her approach mixes practical therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centered conversations. She also uses elements from existential therapy and the Gottman Method when relationship skills are the focus. The result is a straightforward mix of talking, skill practice, and reflection.

In sessions she emphasizes motivation, self-esteem work, and confidence building. She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then tries small, doable changes to test different ways of coping. That means concrete tools to manage stress and anxiety and clearer ways to set boundaries and handle conflict.

People who prefer a bilingual counselor can work with her in Spanish or English. She practices in New York and frames therapy as a practical process rather than abstract theory.

Approaches used in online sessions