- Years in practice
- 3
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Svetlana
Svetlana Rangel is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and parenting concerns. She speaks English and Russian and brings a bicultural perspective to therapy. Her background includes graduate training in marriage and family therapy, and she practices from Texas as an LPC.
Svetlana keeps sessions warm and interactive. She listens carefully and adapts her approach to each person's needs. Conversations are straightforward and focused on practical steps you can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and on client-centered ideas that place the person’s priorities at the center of care. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people pursue values-driven change. For people with trauma histories she employs trauma-focused methods and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate.
Svetlana has three years of counseling experience and has worked with a range of concerns including burnout, immigration-related stress, first responder issues, and relationship strain. She also supports people facing separation or divorce, career transitions, and struggles with guilt or shame. Sessions can include short-term solution-focused work or longer plans that address deeper patterns.
She aims to build practical skills for sleeping, coping with anger, and improving self-esteem while attending to cultural context. The goal is clearer choices and better day-to-day functioning.
What Svetlana works with
Everything Svetlana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Svetlana helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
Approaches Svetlana lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Svetlana Uses Practical Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes that matter.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing different behaviors to reduce distress. It often helps with depression, sleep problems, and managing symptoms of ADHD and anger.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach supports people who need a calmer space to sort through feelings and decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean brief solution-focused steps at first, then adding ACT or CBT techniques over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and avoid needing a camera. Live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. Those options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
Questions people ask about Svetlana
What concerns does Svetlana address?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, parenting, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, ADHD, and related issues.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Her style is warm and interactive. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused or acceptance-based exercises to find what helps you most.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years of counseling experience working with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, first responder issues, immigration-related stress, and midlife challenges.
What credentials and region apply to this therapist?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a TX LPC credential and practices from Texas.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Russian.
What session formats are available online?
People can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling a session according to therapist availability.
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