About Tangela
Dr. Tangela Isely uses a blend of practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, trauma, depression, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and also holds the LCPC credential, and she brings 19 years of work in mental health to each session.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focused on helping people feel heard and understood from the first meeting. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with dialectical behavior strategies and client-centered care to build skills for day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
That looks like learning ways to respond to strong emotions, changing unhelpful thought patterns, and practicing new behaviors that fit a person's values. Mindfulness and acceptance work are woven into sessions when they fit the client's goals. Tangela tends to favor short, clear steps people can try between meetings.
She asks questions, listens closely to what matters to the person, and then co-creates practical plans. Sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, or focused talk about difficult experiences in a paced way to avoid retraumatizing. Her experience includes helping with stress, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, grief, and issues like abandonment or attachment wounds.
She also supports people facing career challenges, compassion fatigue, and first responder stress. Her work often addresses shame, guilt, and rebuilding self-esteem after painful events. Therapy is offered from Texas and is delivered in English.
Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and adjusting to major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to reduce intense reactions and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily challenges, and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process may blend ACT, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness practices over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates, practice skills, or get support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care after relocation or schedule changes.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Maine, Oregon
- Languages
- English