About Chanelle
Chanelle Spencer helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She guides parents and individuals dealing with trauma, parenting strain, career worries, and relationship or communication problems. Chanelle uses practical tools and steady support to help people manage symptoms and move toward clearer goals.
She favors an integrative style that mixes proven methods and a warm, person-focused stance. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small, doable steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Chanelle listens for strengths and builds on them, while teaching simple skills to ease intense emotions and improve daily functioning. Chanelle holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and has nine years of clinical experience. Her background includes work with adults and young adults navigating life transitions, workplace stress, and parenting challenges.
She draws on a range of techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs. People who come to Chanelle can expect clear goals, practical exercises, and space to talk through painful experiences. She blends skill-building with emotional processing so clients can notice small changes quickly.
Meetings are collaborative and focused on real-life coping strategies. Chanelle is based in New York and offers sessions that fit around busy schedules. Her practice aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first visit.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter to the individual. It helps when people feel stuck or overwhelmed and want a way to move toward what matters despite difficult thoughts and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and low mood by testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support between appointments and can help with brief check-ins, skill reminders, or tracking progress. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use methods that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English