About Nanette
Nanette Tangkeko is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with grief, low self-esteem, and recovery from unhealthy relationships. Her approach is straightforward and practical.
She aims to make sessions feel calm and manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. Nannette listens for what matters most and helps people name the problem in plain terms.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of tools that fit the situation, including cognitive work to change unhelpful thoughts and mindfulness to reduce tension. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Sessions are meant to be collaborative.
She helps people set small goals and practices that can be used between meetings. This can look like short behavioral experiments, breathing and grounding techniques, or looking at past experiences that shape current reactions. Nanette also supports clients dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, attachment concerns, and multicultural issues.
She works with people who identify as neurodivergent, including those with autism or intellectual disability, and with young adults finding life purpose. She offers help through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their day. Nanette aims to make therapy practical and approachable for anyone seeking steady, thoughtful support.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Nanette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and experiments that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that lower stress and help people respond more calmly to triggers.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nanette treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. She may blend techniques and adjust the plan as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and chat or text messaging can work for shorter updates or when typing feels easier. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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