About Chabreah
Chabreah Alston is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts. She offers a warm, collaborative approach for people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and a range of relationship and identity concerns. Her style aims to meet immediate needs and longer-term goals in a practical way.
Chabreah draws on body-centered work and somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods. She pays attention to how feelings show up in the body and uses that information to help people feel steadier.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on small, usable steps to reduce distress. Her background includes ten years of clinical experience working with issues such as depression, addiction, sexual and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people navigating ADHD, attachment wounds, abandonment, and communication problems.
Chabreah listens for the patterns that keep a person stuck and helps them try new responses. She integrates several evidence-informed approaches in straightforward ways. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify values and build flexible action.
Attachment-based ideas help repair trust and safety in relationships. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are introduced when emotion regulation and coping strategies are needed. Chabreah emphasizes creativity and individual strengths during therapy.
She invites clients to notice practical changes in daily life and in their bodies. Her aim is to help people feel more connected to their goals and better able to handle life’s challenges.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Chabreah uses somatic-informed work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients notice patterns in the body and connect actions to what matters most. Somatic-informed work focuses on bodily sensations and movements to reduce stress and increase grounding, which can help with trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and dissociation. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while building acceptance for difficult feelings.She also uses Attachment-Based ideas to address trust and relational patterns, which can be useful when rebuilding connection after hurt or abandonment. These approaches are described simply and applied collaboratively; the therapist and client decide together which methods feel like the best fit based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different communication styles and schedules. This flexibility makes it easier to practice body-aware techniques and values-based exercises from home or another familiar place, and to use brief check-ins between sessions when helpful. Licensed professionals adapt the pacing and tools to suit each person's comfort in an online format.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English