About Chauncey
Chauncey Chatman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship problems, addiction concerns, and other life strains. He offers calm, practical guidance and listens for what matters most to each person. Sessions are conversational and focused on real-world change rather than jargon.
With 15 years of experience, Chauncey blends client-centered listening with tools that guide behavior change. He often uses mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and CBT techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
He also draws on emotionally-focused and Gottman-informed ideas when relationship patterns are part of the problem. Clients can expect a collaborative process. He helps people set clear goals, tries different strategies, and adjusts the plan as needed.
Conversations include coping skills, communication practice, and homework that fits everyday life. Chauncey has worked in schools, hospitals, and community mental health settings across California alongside multidisciplinary teams of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and peer counselors. That background informs his steady, practical approach to common problems like depression, sleep trouble, parenting stress, and substance use concerns.
He completed a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University and holds an LMFT license in California. Sessions are offered in English and Chauncey works with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, helping them navigate career changes, grief, attachment concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Approaches that translate to online care
Chauncey often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience so they feel heard and can identify their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on patterns in relationships and helps people learn new ways to connect and communicate when intimacy or conflict are issues.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together over time. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps in a person's daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and role-play exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions, send short updates, or do brief coaching-style work. These formats help fit therapy into work breaks, busy parenting schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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