About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald is a licensed clinician who blends practical talk therapy with a warm, accepting style. She holds LCPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Florida. Her approach centers on helping people reduce anxiety, manage stress, and cope with life changes including grief and addictions.
She focuses on everyday problems that get in the way of living well. That includes mood struggles like depression and bipolar symptoms, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues tied to self-esteem and body image.
Background and approach
ADHD is also listed among her focus areas and is part of the concerns she addresses in sessions. Chantal uses methods that help people understand their patterns and try new ways of handling problems. She emphasizes attachment and emotionally-focused work to look at how relationships shape feelings.
She also draws on client-centered and cognitive-behavioral tools to build practical skills for daily life. Sessions aim to feel like a calm, nonjudgmental conversation. Chantal encourages clients to name what they want to change and then tries manageable steps to get there.
She frames therapy as a collaboration, where progress is made one small shift at a time. With five years of professional experience, she brings focused support for a broad range of concerns. People who come to her often want clearer communication, fewer overwhelm moments, or strategies for coping after loss or trauma.
The work prioritizes what matters to each person and moves at a realistic pace.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Chantal draws on attachment-based work to help people see how early and close relationships affect current feelings. This approach looks at emotional patterns in relationships and helps people practice new ways of connecting and responding. She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to break problems into clear thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and to teach concrete coping skills for anxiety, mood, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily routines to choose methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and may change over time as needs shift and progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer session work. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support and quick problem-solving between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum during change.
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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
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