About Chantal
Chantal MacDonald is a Florida-licensed counselor who leans on client-centered and attachment-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, and problems tied to addiction and loss. She is listed as LCPC and LMHC and brings five years of professional experience to her work. Chantal aims to create a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk honestly and begin practical change.
Her sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect back what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas help when relationships, abandonment, or trust wounds are part of the problem. Chantal also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to map unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior experiments. Dialectical behavior ideas are used for emotion regulation and coping skills when feelings feel overwhelming.
Emotionally-focused elements support people working through intimacy and communication concerns. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including grief, depression, ADHD, body image, eating and sleeping difficulties, and relationship challenges such as infidelity or communication problems. Other focus areas listed include trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, gender dysphoria, and issues related to cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Chantal emphasizes collaboration - she helps people set realistic steps, try concrete strategies, and notice what changes over time.
Approach and access: how therapy translates online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and reactions. In online sessions this can mean gently tracking how a client responds to closeness, abandonment fears, or trust issues and practicing new ways of relating in conversation.Client-centered therapy centers on listening, acceptance, and reflecting what the client says. Online formats make it straightforward to hold steady, attentive conversations where the therapist mirrors concerns and helps a person clarify goals.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying concrete behavior changes. Practically, this might involve setting short experiments between sessions, using phone or video to review progress, and adjusting strategies based on what actually helps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with the client to figure out which methods fit best given their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps decide whether to emphasize skills, emotional processing, or relationship work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and exercises that need visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint helps maintain progress.
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What this therapist works with
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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