About Chanel
Chanel Bowen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She brings 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, and mood challenges. Chanel combines talk-based work with body-aware practices to help people feel steadier day to day.
Chanel uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She often draws on somatic ideas to notice how the body holds stress, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused perspectives to clarify values and relationship patterns. Clients may learn emotion regulation and stress-tolerance skills during sessions. As a registered yoga teacher, she can guide simple breathing and grounding exercises in telehealth appointments.
Many people find this helpful when sleep, appetite, or concentration are disrupted. Chanel also integrates relapse-prevention thinking and practical coping plans for addictions and compulsive behaviors. Sessions include skills practice, goal-setting, and steps to reduce triggers and risky patterns.
The work is practical and paced to each person’s readiness. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Chanel responds to messages during the workweek and schedules sessions according to posted availability.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session that fits their timing.
How somatic and behavioral approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how tension and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, grounding exercises, and gentle body awareness to reduce panic, sleep disruption, or chronic stress. These practices are paired with talk-based reflection so sensations get context and meaning.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them. It helps when worry, avoidance, or shame get in the way of everyday goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and behavior.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide what feels most useful, and will adjust methods as progress is made. Clients are invited to share preferences and concerns so sessions match their pace and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use skills between sessions. Many people appreciate the flexibility to practice breathing or grounding at home while talking through what comes up.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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