Dr. Tangela Isely
Compassionate, practical therapy for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC, LCPC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Maine, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tangela
Dr. Tangela Isely uses evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and other life challenges. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 19 years of clinical experience.
Tangela writes and listens with care and aims to make the first steps feel possible for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. Her style is compassionate and collaborative. She draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and a person-centered foundation.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens for patterns, gently points out connections, and offers practical tools to try between meetings. Tangela has worked with many concerns including depression, grief, addictions, parenting stress, relationship problems, and attention-related difficulties. She also addresses issues like attachment, codependency, caregiver burnout, and trauma-related struggles.
Her background across multiple states informs a flexible approach anchored in respect for each person’s story. Clients who come for help can expect straightforward conversation and concrete strategies. Tangela helps people notice what’s getting in the way and build small steps toward change.
She also supports work on communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, and coping skills tailored to everyday life. Based in Texas, Tangela offers sessions in English. She emphasizes safety and pacing to avoid re-traumatization, and she works together with each person to set goals that feel manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice tough thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small, value-driven actions even when emotions are hard. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises to test and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop new coping skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Tangela approaches online work collaboratively. She will talk with each person about what matters most and try different methods to see what fits. Together they set goals and adjust the plan based on how the work is going and what the person prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. This range of formats makes it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work between in-person obligations. Licensed professionals can use these methods to teach skills, practice new ways of communicating, and support gradual changes over time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point