About Marlo
Marlo Rangel is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Her Texas background and 12 years of experience shape a steady, practical style in sessions.
Her work focuses on everyday problems like stress, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, and difficulties with intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people coping with grief, bipolar mood swings, compassion fatigue, and career pressures.
Background and approach
Marlo pays attention to how family of origin and attachment issues influence current choices and patterns. In sessions she uses clear, goal-oriented methods alongside empathetic listening. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Client-Centered Therapy creates space for people to reflect and make their own decisions. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques guide short-term goals and stepwise change. Marlo aims to help people find practical tools that fit their life.
She works with concerns like abandonment, blended family challenges, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Her approach emphasizes building skills for handling strong emotions and improving daily routines. People who choose Marlo can expect a calm, straightforward therapist who balances warmth with direction.
She offers phone, video, chat, and text-based sessions so people can connect in ways that fit their schedules. Sessions are provided in English and reflect her experience practicing in Texas.
Online approaches that combine skill-building and support
Marlo uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or stress. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and gives homework-style tools to practice between sessions.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can reflect and decide on their own next steps. This approach emphasizes listening and helping clients tap their own strengths. Dialectical Behavior Therapy elements may be added when emotion regulation and interpersonal skills are a focus, offering concrete techniques to manage intense feelings.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest approaches that fit those aims. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is or isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between appointments or use shorter, focused exchanges during a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English