About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald uses an approach rooted in attachment work and client-centered care. She focuses on clear, practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. Chantal aims to make sessions straightforward and compassionate so people can speak honestly about hard things.
Chantal is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She practices in Florida and brings five years of clinical experience to her work.
How Chantal works
Her background includes helping people who face eating and sleeping difficulties, intimacy and relationship problems, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges like ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her method blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with emotion-focused and attachment-based ideas. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, understand strong feelings, and rebuild safer ways of relating to others.
Sessions often include practical skills, reflection on relationship patterns, and steps to try between appointments. People come for a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar challenges, body image, and communication problems. Chantal also supports those dealing with issues such as infidelity, hoarding, dissociation, gender dysphoria, and HIV/AIDS.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She works with each person to set goals and track progress. The focus is on small, manageable changes that fit into everyday life.
Chantal lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Chantal works with
The areas below are the ones Chantal selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How attachment and skills work online
Chantal draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how relationship patterns shape feelings and reactions. That approach helps people understand why they repeat certain behaviors and what rebuilds trust and closeness in relationships. Client-centered therapy is also central; it emphasizes listening, empathy, and making the pace fit the individual so people feel heard and can set their own goals.She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical alternatives that reduce anxiety and improve mood. Together with clients she decides which approaches to try first, tailoring the plan to goals, comfort level, and what feels most useful. The process is collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to attend consistently and to use therapy in everyday life.
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