- Warm interactive style
- Bilingual English Spanish
- Focus on depression
About Graciela
Graciela "Gracie" Wangsnes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with ten years of experience. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and offers a warm, interactive approach that helps people talk through difficult emotions and daily pressures.
Gracie focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, family concerns, and low self-esteem. She also supports work on body image, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety. Sessions are framed around what matters to each person rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Her work is influenced by cognitive behavioral ideas alongside client-centered and dialectical methods. In practice that means noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, increasing values-based action, and building practical skills to manage intense feelings. The conversation is collaborative and guided by the client’s goals.
Gracie aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She adapts the pace and focus of sessions to fit each person’s needs and readiness for change. People who are nervous about starting therapy are encouraged to take the first step and try a session.
Her background includes a decade of clinical work in California settings and direct experience helping people with motivation, confidence, and relationship strains. Gracie designs treatment plans around what the client brings to the room and adjusts them as progress is made.
Gracie focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, family concerns, and low self-esteem. She also supports work on body image, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety. Sessions are framed around what matters to each person rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Her work is influenced by cognitive behavioral ideas alongside client-centered and dialectical methods. In practice that means noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, increasing values-based action, and building practical skills to manage intense feelings. The conversation is collaborative and guided by the client’s goals.
Gracie aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She adapts the pace and focus of sessions to fit each person’s needs and readiness for change. People who are nervous about starting therapy are encouraged to take the first step and try a session.
Her background includes a decade of clinical work in California settings and direct experience helping people with motivation, confidence, and relationship strains. Gracie designs treatment plans around what the client brings to the room and adjusts them as progress is made.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.