About Chanel
Chanel Bowen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress, manage anxiety, address addictions, and navigate major life changes. Chanel uses practical coping skills to help clients move toward clearer goals and steadier days.
She draws on several therapy approaches to meet each person where they are. Chanel often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits.
How Chanel works
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming. Chanel incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to clarify values and help clients take small steps toward what matters. Attachment-based thinking shapes how she looks at close relationships and patterns that repeat across time.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused, with homework and skills practice as needed. Practical tools are part of her work. She can guide clients in breathing and relaxation exercises drawn from her background as a registered yoga teacher.
Those techniques are woven into sessions when they fit the goals for stress reduction or sleep support. Therapy with Chanel can include short skill-building exercises, gentle reflection, and action plans to try between sessions. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
The first steps are a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a session.
Chanel lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Chanel works with
The areas below are the ones Chanel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online counseling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses less on getting rid of difficult thoughts and more on making room for them while moving toward meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily stressors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training offers tools for handling intense emotions, building distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when relationships feel fraught.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chanel will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
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