Chantal MacDonald, LCPC, LMHC

Florida · 5 years in practice

Chantal MacDonald is a licensed counselor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered and attachment-informed approaches.

License and registration

LMHC, Florida: MH21352 · expires March 2027
LCPC, Nevada: CP5642-R · expires January 2028
NPI: 1710650353 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Chantal

Chantal MacDonald is a licensed counselor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered and attachment-informed approaches. She describes therapy as a place to share thoughts and feelings without judgment. Her tone is supportive and focused on practical steps toward a more satisfying life.

Chantal works with people facing stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, and challenges tied to ADHD and bipolar experience.

Background and approach

Her practice includes additional focuses such as attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. In sessions she emphasizes understanding emotions and relationship patterns. That often means looking at how past connections shape present reactions.

She combines this with straightforward skills from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness strategies to manage difficult moments. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She aims to build a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can try new ways of coping and relating.

She supports goal-setting and small, achievable changes that fit each person's life. Chantal holds licensure as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She practices in Florida and has five years of professional experience.

Sessions are offered in English and use several online formats for flexibility.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Chantal lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
Body image
Cancer
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Dissociation
Eating and food-related issues
Gender dysphoria
HIV / AIDS
Hoarding
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Jealousy
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Paranoia
Personality disorders
Phobias
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-harm
Sex addiction
Sexual assault and abuse
Traumatic brain injury

Approaches Chantal names

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Online support

Emotion and Attachment Work Online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong emotions and how those feelings affect relationships. It is useful for people who want to understand patterns that keep them stuck and to practice new, more helpful responses. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and current bonding patterns to explain how people seek safety and connection; it can help when fears of abandonment, avoidance, or difficulty trusting show up in daily life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative search can include trying techniques from client-centered counseling, CBT, or DBT when a mix of approaches makes sense.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to track progress between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for using the approach that works best for each person.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Chantal commonly address?

She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and depression, plus relationship and intimacy-related issues and many related concerns.

What is her therapeutic approach like?

Her approach centers on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and attachment ideas, combined with client-centered care and skills from CBT and DBT when helpful.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Chantal has five years of professional experience providing counseling services in multiple settings.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds LCPC and LMHC credentials and practices in Florida with licensure tied to those designations.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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