About Tamela
Tamela Stull-Drugan helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, trauma, and workplace problems. She brings a calm presence and practical focus to sessions. Her approach aims to help people feel more in control and move toward the changes they want.
She has 22 years of experience in substance abuse and mental health work. Tamela is licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona.
How Tamela works
She emphasizes treating people with dignity and respect while tailoring the plan to each person's needs. In sessions she uses straightforward conversation and goal-focused methods. She combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, doable steps toward change. Tamela works with common problems like commitment and communication issues, control struggles, forgiveness, loneliness, mood disorders, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes helping people learn to live sober lives and manage day-to-day pressures.
She adapts the pace and content of therapy to what each person needs. Her style is practical and supportive. She helps people set realistic goals, try new strategies, and track what works.
Tamela aims to make the process understandable and useful so people can keep moving forward.
Tamela lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Tamela works with
The areas below are the ones Tamela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and letting each person guide the pace and topics of sessions; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk things through and find their own direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear, practical tools to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching skills to manage moods and reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tamela collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals and what feels useful. She adjusts strategies over time so sessions match changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be a quick way to check in or do shorter focused work. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and other responsibilities while still using client-centered, CBT, and mindfulness techniques effectively.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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