About Chanel
Chanel Bowen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She combines practical coping skills with attention to personal values so people can handle stress and regain balance. Chanel often uses behavior-focused tools alongside skills for emotion regulation and relapse prevention.
In sessions she keeps language plain and practical. Clients learn skills from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior therapy to manage anxiety, mood, and addictive patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to explore how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Chanel offers guidance in short exercises during telehealth sessions and can incorporate breathing or gentle movement as someone prefers, reflecting her background as a registered yoga teacher. That can help with sleep problems, stress, and regulation when feelings or cravings spike.
She helps people facing grief, trauma, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image concerns, and work-related burnout. ADHD, compulsive behavior, and intimacy-related issues are included in her focus areas.
Sessions are conversational and skill-oriented. Expect goal-focused work with homework between meetings when helpful. The aim is to leave each week with at least one concrete tool to try.
To start, Chanel asks clients to complete a brief questionnaire and then schedules sessions that fit their routines. She offers several remote formats to match different needs and lifestyles.
Approaches that fit online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting attention toward meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical exercises to change them; it is often used for anxiety, mood problems, sleep issues, and addictive behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills so people can manage strong feelings and relationship challenges more steadily.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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