About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald uses a person-centered approach that puts the client's experience first. She combines practical strategies with emotional support to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. Chantal holds LCPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Florida.
She keeps language simple and focuses on clear steps people can take between sessions. Her style emphasizes attentive listening and gentle guidance. Sessions aim to create a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
She works with issues around relationships, intimacy, communication, and self-esteem using approaches that match each person's needs. Chantal draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas to look at how early bonds and current relationship patterns affect emotional responses.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when people need tools for managing strong emotions and building distress tolerance. Over five years she has supported people facing life changes, parenting strain, workplace stress, and challenges like ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and coping with chronic illness. She aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can use what they learn right away.
Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer work on relationship patterns and emotional healing. The focus is on collaboration: clients set goals and Chantal adapts methods to help reach them.
Using attachment and skills-based work in online sessions
Chantal often blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and helps people notice how those patterns affect their connections with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process helps decide whether more emotion-focused or skills-based work is best for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when regular written updates help track progress. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and other responsibilities while keeping therapy practical and accessible.
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What this counselor 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