Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Chanel works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Chanel
Chanel Bowen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 11 years of experience. She combines counseling and practical tools to help people manage strong emotions, change unhealthy habits, and feel more steady in day-to-day life. She focuses on problems like stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, depression, and relationship concerns.
Chanel also helps with sleep and eating struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and work or career stress. Her work often includes attention to attachment issues and challenges like codependency or caregiver strain.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses straightforward, skills-based approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are taught for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take action toward them. She sometimes brings in gentle movement and breathing exercises drawn from her background as a registered yoga teacher to ease tension during telehealth sessions. Chanel aims to give short, usable tools clients can try between meetings.
Her style is practical, steady, and focused on small changes that add up. Chanel works with adults in North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The online format is used to fit work and family schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
What Chanel works with
Everything Chanel lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Chanel's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Chanel lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters most, and take steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and practicing new responses to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and habit change. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Chanel treats the selection as a collaborative process, matching methods to a person's goals, challenges, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies so the plan stays useful as needs evolve.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and skills practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, quicker problem-solving between sessions, and consistent access to tools and feedback.
Questions people ask about Chanel
What kinds of concerns does Chanel help with?
She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and related areas such as sleep, eating, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Chanel uses a skills-focused, practical approach that teaches step-by-step tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and behavior change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience working with adults on a range of mental health and behavioral concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is licensed as an LCMHC in North Carolina and sees clients who live in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Chanel provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.