About Svetlana
Svetlana Rangel helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and life changes. She supports clients dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, and career issues. She also works with people managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to immigration or military service.
Svetlana uses a warm, interactive style in sessions. She listens carefully and adapts the conversation to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Her goal is to make talking about hard things clearer and more manageable. She draws on several practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Solution-Focused tools are part of her work.
She also uses Client-Centered principles and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. Svetlana trained for her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC. She has practiced in Texas for three years and brings bilingual perspective to her work, speaking English and Russian.
Clients can expect focused sessions that aim to identify patterns, build coping skills, and set small, achievable goals. Conversations are tailored so people leave with strategies they can try between meetings. She pays attention to how culture and background shape experience and self-worth.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them. It teaches values-based action so someone can move toward a meaningful life even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and gives step-by-step strategies to change them and reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-informed approach that helps process painful memories so they feel less overwhelming and intrusive.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Svetlana will listen to your history, goals, and preferences and recommend methods that fit. She combines techniques when helpful and adjusts the plan as you progress, so treatment stays relevant to your needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you meet face-to-face for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or times when a written note feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep consistency and practice new skills between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Russian