Marlo Rangel, LPC

Marlo Rangel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She works with concerns like parenting stress, intimacy issues, body image, career stress, and coping with major life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, with a focus on practical steps clients can use between sessions.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that get in the way of daily life. Marlo also uses Client-Centered techniques to create a supportive space where clients lead the conversation and feel heard. She incorporates skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed.

Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and small experiments clients can try outside of appointments. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies to keep work focused and actionable. Marlo emphasizes building stronger communication, healthier boundaries, and realistic plans for change.

Over twelve years of practice inform her approach to trauma, mood concerns, and family-of-origin issues. She pays attention to adoption and foster care concerns, attachment wounds, and the practical fallout of domestic violence or separation. That background helps shape concrete next steps for recovery and growth.

Marlo offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing work. People who choose her typically get a combination of skill-building, reflective conversation, and step-by-step problem solving to move forward.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Marlo commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify distressing thought patterns and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions empathic and patient-led, allowing clients to set the pace and topics that matter most. When intense emotions or self-harm risk require skills work, she integrates elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Marlo discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then agrees on a plan with each client. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is lower or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, parenting, or travel while keeping ongoing momentum in therapy.