About Chandel
Chandel Tommola greets readers with a calm, direct voice and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by big life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 12 years of experience to sessions. Her style is collaborative and practical, aimed at helping people regain a sense of themselves and their goals.
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship problems. She also supports people dealing with grief, career transitions, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and questions about identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
Short-term coaching and coping skills are part of her work when they fit a client's goals. Her approach draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused work. In practice this means she listens first, then helps clients spot unhelpful thinking, try small experiments, and build clear steps to change.
Sessions can cover difficult memories, patterns that repeat in relationships, or practical skills for day-to-day stress. She names habits and thinking that get in the way and offers ways to replace them with manageable routines and clearer communication. Chandel has worked across personal offices, the justice system, in-home care, and telehealth.
She practices in New York as an LMHC and holds evening session times most weekdays to fit busy schedules.
How Chandel’s Approaches Work Online
Chandel blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-centered therapy means she starts by listening and following what matters most to the client, creating space to clarify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood problems.She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. That approach helps people resolve mixed feelings, find personal motivation, and set achievable next steps when they want to quit a habit or make a life change. Together these methods guide short-term problem solving and longer work on trauma or relationship patterns in a collaborative way.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a team effort - goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can fit into a quick break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapist's chosen approaches to address stress, trauma, relationship concerns, and everyday coping.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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