About Mylane
Mylane Wigley is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Alabama with three decades of experience. She brings long-term clinical practice to common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, anger, and ADHD. She favors straightforward, practical work and focuses on teaching skills people can use outside sessions.
Wigley’s style centers on honesty and collaboration. She emphasizes an open therapeutic relationship so clients can address current problems and learn ways to handle future setbacks.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build clear tools for emotion regulation, communication, and coping with life transitions. Her approach draws from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and make different choices. She also uses client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in each person’s goals.
Emotionally-focused methods guide conversations about attachment and relationship strains when those issues come up. Over the years Wigley has worked in a variety of settings and with many concerns. She helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, family problems, parenting stress, and issues around commitment and trust.
She pays particular attention to how past relationships affect present behavior. Clients can expect practical skill-building alongside talk therapy. Wigley teaches ways to recognize setbacks and steps to get back on track.
The emphasis is on small, steady changes that improve day-to-day functioning and relationships. Her practice is informed by 30 years of experience and by a goal of making therapy useful and accessible. The focus is on clear steps clients can take between sessions to handle challenges and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches used online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching acceptance and committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then replacing those patterns with practical skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger by giving concrete tools to change thinking and behavior. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and offers empathy and reflection to promote insight and growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and needs to decide which methods to try first. Treatment is collaborative and may combine ideas from more than one approach as progress and concerns evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while continuing focused, skills-based work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English