About Chandel
Chandel Tommola is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by worry, big life changes, or painful memories. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people feel more like themselves again.
Chandel often begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. She helps clients notice patterns that get in the way and teaches coping skills for anxiety, depression, grief, and stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - the client sets goals and Chandel offers tools and feedback to reach them. She has worked in a variety of settings including personal offices, the justice system, in-home care, and telehealth. That range informs a flexible approach that adapts to different needs and everyday life demands.
Chandel draws on methods that target thinking habits, trauma responses, motivation, and concrete problem-solving. Common topics she addresses include anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationships, parenting concerns, self-esteem, grief, and life transitions. She also helps with substance-related problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career stress.
Additional focuses include attachment worries, body image, codependency, and family of origin issues. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Chandel works in English and practices from New York as an LMHC.
If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. It helps people clarify what matters to them and set personal goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to reduce worry and low mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding how past hurt affects current reactions and on learning ways to reduce distress related to those memories.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins, homework, or brief coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different rhythms of life and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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