Chandel Tommola

Chandel Tommola is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), a New York-licensed professional counselor, with 12 years of experience supporting people through times that feel heavy, confusing, or stuck. She has worked across a range of settings, including private office work, the justice system, in-home services, and telehealth, which informs a practical and flexible approach to care. Her experience includes helping clients navigate life transitions, anxiety, depression, and trauma, especially when stress starts to affect daily functioning, relationships, or a sense of connection to self.

Clients may come to therapy after a job loss, a breakup, a move, or a growing sense of disconnection. Others may feel trapped in repeating worries, notice a drop in motivation, or struggle to understand sudden changes in mood and interest. For some, past trauma, including childhood experiences that once seemed "in the past," can begin showing up in current relationships and lead to fear, confusion, or emotional overwhelm. In counseling, Chandel helps clients build insight, strengthen coping skills for difficult moments, and work toward meaningful goals so they can feel more like themselves again and continue discovering who they are.

Chandel does not view therapy as one-size-fits-all. She draws from multiple therapeutic models to better match the work to each client, and she emphasizes collaboration, treating therapy as a team effort in which the client is the expert on their own life. While supportive, she also helps clients examine patterns in thoughts and behaviors that may be working against what they want, with the aim of reducing habits that keep them feeling stuck.

She holds sessions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm, and may be able to offer a make-up session on another day when scheduling allows.