About Chenelle
Chenelle Forbes is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She brings eight years of hands-on experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Chenelle focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope with life changes.
She starts by listening to each person’s story and noticing strengths they already have. Chenelle believes clients know their lives best, and she helps them use those strengths to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the person needs that week. Chenelle works with issues like abandonment and attachment concerns, communication and control problems, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She also supports people navigating forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Practical matters such as money stress, infidelity, and end-of-life or hospice challenges are included in her focus. Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Conversations aim to uncover small, realistic changes rather than quick fixes.
Chenelle helps people build coping skills they can practice between sessions so progress continues outside the room. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. People who want to begin work with Chenelle follow the site’s Start Therapy flow to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Chenelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence so anxiety and low mood become easier to manage. This method helps with worry, self-critical thinking, and day-to-day stress.Another approach she uses centers on strengthening attachment and relationships by exploring patterns of connection and repair. This work is useful for abandonment concerns, communication problems, and feelings of isolation. It emphasizes small changes in how people relate to others and to themselves.
Finding the right approach is a collaboration. Chenelle discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts techniques to fit what feels most useful. Together they pick steps that match current needs and practical life routines.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging work for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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