About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening first and following each person’s pace. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. Her style is direct but compassionate, and she focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addictive behaviors.
Chantal draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationship and intimacy issues are central. In sessions she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where feelings can be named and understood. She works with clients to set clear, achievable goals and to build practical skills for day-to-day life.
Conversations are guided by what matters most to each person rather than a fixed script. Her background includes five years of professional experience across settings that address trauma, addiction, and mood concerns. Chantal pays attention to issues like attachment wounds, body image, and identity-related stress, and she adapts methods to suit each situation.
She helps people who are coping with life changes, career stress, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Sessions may include skill teaching, thought work, and emotional processing depending on the goal. Chantal aims to support growth and gradual change while honoring each person’s history and values.
How attachment and skill-based therapy work online
Chantal often combines attachment-based work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address patterns that cause emotional pain. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current trust and closeness, which can help with intimacy, abandonment fears, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, history, and daily life. That may mean leaning more on emotion-focused exercises for relationship issues or on CBT skills when managing panic, and adjustments happen as goals change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief coaching or day-to-day skill practice. These options help people keep continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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