About Chandel
Chandel Tommola is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She works with clients dealing with trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Chandel writes plainly and meets people where they are so they can start feeling more like themselves again.
Chandel brings 12 years of experience across independent practice, telehealth, in-home work, and in settings connected to the justice system.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters to each person. From there she and the client set clear, practical goals and choose tools that fit day-to-day life. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods rather than a single model.
She uses client-centered work to build a respectful, collaborative space. Cognitive approaches help people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set achievable steps and build momentum.
Chandel also offers trauma-focused work for people whose past hurts still affect present relationships and functioning. She balances gentle support with honest feedback, helping people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. Sessions aim to teach coping skills, improve communication, and restore a sense of agency.
Chandel practices in New York and offers work in English. She describes therapy as a team effort and invites people to take the next step when they are ready.
How Chandel Uses Practical Approaches Online
Chandel draws on client-centered work to build a respectful, listening-first relationship where the client's experience leads the pace and focus. This helps people who need a calm space to talk through overwhelming feelings and decide what matters most to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that links thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps with anxiety, low mood, and repetitive worry by teaching concrete techniques to change thinking patterns and try new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is used alongside these methods to help people find their own reasons to change and set small, realistic steps toward goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Expect the plan to be adjusted over time as progress and obstacles become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a brief break at work, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or written reflection. These options make it easier to work on skills, track progress, and keep momentum without commuting.
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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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