About Us

Why Hope with ME?

1,440 minutes.

You have 1,440 minutes at your disposal every day.

What will you do with them? How will you use them?

The world is getting faster, more complicated, and less certain. As a result, millions of us are experiencing more depression, more anxiety, and more failed relationships. When anxiety and depression dominate, life becomes overwhelming, exhausting, and lonely.

At Hope with ME, our goal is to help you overcome anxiety and depression. We want to help mend broken relationships. Whether it’s through therapy, during one of our keynote speeches, or at our workshops, our mission remains the same. Hope with ME is committed to helping you live with hope and purpose.

Bottom line: Hope with ME wants your next 1,440 minutes to be the most fulfilling ones yet!

 

 

Who is Hope with ME?

Hope With ME is owned and operated by husband and wife team, Dr. Michael Mecozzi and Dr. Aimee Echevarria. It is our mission to help you learn to live fully with hope and purpose.

 

Dr. Michael Mecozzi is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker. He uses cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This approach focuses on identifying solutions to present problems by helping you live consistent with your values, even while experiencing difficult thoughts, feelings and memories. Dr. Mecozzi’s philosophy is that it is our struggle to get rid of our anxiety and depression that actually worsens our anxiety and depression. Dr. Mecozzi will teach you how to develop a new relationship with your anxiety and depression, so you can experience more hope, contentment and fulfillment in your life.
Dr. Aimee Echevarria, better known to her clients as “Dr. E,” is a bilingual (Spanish), bicultural licensed clinical psychologist. From Dr. E’s perspective, depression, anxiety, and loneliness distort how we see our relationships, our circumstances, and ourselves. The result: relational conflict, lack of life-satisfaction and loss of direction. Dr. E’s interest is to help you learn how to develop self-confidence, improved communication, and greater personal fulfillment.
Dr. Emily Gramajo As a therapist, it is my privilege to walk with you down the winding pathways of your journey. Together, we will learn about meaning-making, your values, and how you experience your challenges.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will primarily be utilized as a means of discovering how to increase your strengths, mental stamina, and emotional awareness  in order to work through challenges, grow within, and deepen your experience of hope once again.

Dr. Gramajo specializes in working with adult women experiencing anxiety, past trauma, moral injury/moral distress or relationship challenges. Dr. Gramajo helps her clients no longer be defined by their past so they can flourish in the future.

Dr. Lekai James works from a third-wave cognitive behavioral perspective, incorporating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma-informed care, and mind-body approaches. She helps clients understand the emotional, behavioral, and relational patterns that shape their lives and develop the psychological flexibility to respond differently — even when old coping strategies feel automatic.

Dr. James has a special interest in complex trauma and psychosomatic processes, recognizing how chronic stress and relational injury can influence both identity and physical experience. Her goal is to support clients in building awareness, resilience, and meaningful, values-driven change.