Dr. Tangela Isely , LPC, LCPC

Dr. Tangela Isely is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and related concerns. She practices from a compassionate, person-centered stance and aims to make the first step easier to take.

Her approach blends practical skills with thoughtful listening. She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools alongside client-centered care. Sessions focus on building skills for emotion regulation, changing unhelpful thinking, and identifying personal values to guide choices.

Dr. Isely helps people dealing with relationship strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, eating or sleeping problems, and career or parenting stress. She also works with concerns linked to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and first responder issues. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and relationships.

In sessions she aims to hear each person’s story and create a calm space to talk things through. She balances direct skill teaching with open listening so clients feel understood and gain tools they can use between visits. Her style is warm and straightforward.

Based in Texas, she combines steady clinical experience with a practical focus on day-to-day change. Reaching out is framed as a sign of strength, and she supports people as they take the next steps toward clearer thinking and more manageable emotions.

Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care

Dr. Isely often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people move forward. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then shape sessions together. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that fit someone’s life and values.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase convenience. Video calls are useful for conversational sessions and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or situations with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options are intended to give more flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday schedules.