About Chenelle
Chenelle Forbes is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes.
Chenelle aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and start to build skills for day-to-day life. Her background includes working with a range of concerns that often sit beneath symptoms.
How Chenelle works
She helps people address abandonment and attachment issues, communication and control struggles, and feelings of emptiness or shame. She also supports clients dealing with HIV and AIDS concerns, hospice and end-of-life matters, and challenges tied to infidelity or isolation. Chenelle pays attention to practical needs as well as emotions.
Conversations often include identifying small, doable steps and ways to manage stress in the moment. She encourages people to notice strengths they already have and to use those strengths to face difficult decisions or life transitions. Clients can expect a straightforward, supportive approach focused on real problems and clear goals.
Sessions emphasize coping strategies, rebuilding self-love and self-worth, and working through guilt or forgiveness. Chenelle also addresses money and financial stress as part of everyday life concerns. Her goal is to help people regain a sense of direction and purpose.
She supports men navigating gendered pressures and anyone seeking greater meaning or motivation. Chenelle works in English and practices from New York.
What Chenelle works with
The areas below are the ones Chenelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Chenelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing stress and anxiety, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and step-by-step problem solving. These skills help reduce day-to-day overwhelm and improve coping.Another approach centers on processing trauma and hurt through paced conversations that honor personal limits while working toward healing. This work often includes rebuilding self-worth and addressing guilt, shame, or feelings of abandonment that can follow traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Chenelle will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and together choose techniques that fit the situation. She adjusts methods over time based on progress and what feels most helpful.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people keep a face-to-face rhythm, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and to continue care even when travel or time constraints are a factor.
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