About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald is a licensed counselor who focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety. She holds a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and uses those skills to help people manage day-to-day struggles. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She aims to make the first steps feel doable for people who are worried or worn out. She draws on several approaches including attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are client-centered, so conversations follow what matters most to the person in the room. Chantal also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused methods when they match a person's goals. Areas Chantal commonly addresses include coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, relationships, and sleep or eating concerns.
She also supports people dealing with career stress, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, gender dysphoria, and communication problems. Chantal has five years of professional experience and practices in Florida.
Sessions are offered in English and are available in video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works collaboratively with each person to build small, manageable changes that add up over time. Her approach emphasizes practical skills, clear communication, and steady support.
People who are ready to try focused, compassionate work will find a calm, direct partner in therapy with Chantal.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses; online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice different ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood shifts.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Chantal will work with clients to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online therapy offers a flexible way to fit care into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and mirror in-person work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging makes it easy to keep momentum between sessions. These options make it possible to get consistent support while working around work, family, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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