About Regina
Regina Angelo-Tarango is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 17 years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, judgment-free space where people can bring stress, anxiety, grief, relationship worries, and questions about parenting or life changes. Regina listens closely and helps people figure out practical next steps.
Her work blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered care and cognitive behavioral tools. She pays attention to early relationships, communication patterns, and how thoughts affect mood and behavior.
Background and approach
That mix can help with mood disorders, panic symptoms, and struggles with intimacy or trust. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to help people stay present and build motivation for change. Those methods are useful for coping with stress, compassion fatigue, and career or life transitions.
Regina aims to make skills easy to practice between sessions. Regina has supported people through trauma, abuse, adoption and foster care concerns, and family of origin issues. She helps clients facing postpartum depression, caregiver stress, grief, and shame.
Her approach is direct but warm, focusing on clear goals and steady progress. Therapy with Regina is collaborative. She works with each person to set goals, try new strategies, and track what helps.
She speaks English and provides services to people in California.
How approach and online care fit together
Regina uses attachment-based therapy to look at how early bonds affect current relationships and sense of safety. This approach helps people who struggle with trust, intimacy, and repeating relationship patterns.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and build concrete skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and panic symptoms. CBT provides clear exercises and homework that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Regina collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let people keep eye contact and show body language when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to reach out between sessions for brief coaching or to share progress.
These formats make it possible to use attachment and CBT techniques in ways that suit daily life, whether practicing grounding exercises after a panic episode or trying a new communication skill at work or home.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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