About Carmel
Carmel Matallana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or life changes. Carmel also helps people managing ADHD, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy issues.
She worked as a rehabilitation counselor before becoming a clinician, so she brings a long history of hands-on problem solving. In sessions she focuses on clear coaching and strategies that fit each person's daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify small changes that make day-to-day tasks easier and more manageable. Carmel uses a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening. She helps people notice patterns, try new coping skills, and decide what matters most to them.
Her style balances practical tools with steady emotional support. People come to her for help with sleep or eating concerns, parenting stress, career strain, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and mood instability like bipolar symptoms. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, codependency, and body image.
Carmel focuses on the whole person rather than a single problem. Sessions are geared toward realistic steps you can use between meetings. Carmel works collaboratively to set goals and adjust the approach as needs change.
The aim is to build resilience and greater balance over time.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and practice small actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with mood, anxiety, sleep, and ADHD-related challenges. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, using active listening and empathy to help people feel heard and to guide their own problem solving.Carmel treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust them over time based on what works.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between scheduled meetings. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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