Chantal Peloquin, LMHC

Chantal Peloquin is a licensed mental health counselor with 16 years of clinical experience. She practices from Massachusetts and offers counseling in English. Chantal uses practical, evidence-informed tools to help people manage stress, mood struggles, anxiety, addiction concerns, and life transitions.

Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens first and helps people figure out what's most pressing. Sessions focus on skills people can use between visits, such as strategies for sleep, managing strong emotions, and improving daily routines.

Chantal draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy and client-centered techniques to support values-based choices and to keep the work focused on each person's goals. Mindfulness and dialetical behavior therapy tools are part of her toolkit for building distress tolerance and emotional regulation.

She has worked in a range of settings, including outpatient and residential care, and has experience with people facing complex and overlapping challenges like co-occurring disorders, trauma, chronic illness, and substance use. That background informs a flexible approach to treatment planning and follow-up.

Chantal takes a collaborative approach. She helps people set concrete, achievable goals and checks progress regularly. Practical homework and short skill-building exercises are often part of the work so progress can extend into day-to-day life.

Practical therapy approaches for online care

Chantal uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and change behaviors that maintain problems. CBT is often applied to anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and impulsive patterns by teaching concrete exercises and experiments people can practice between sessions.

She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to guide people toward values-based action and to develop willingness to face difficult thoughts or feelings. Client-centered techniques are used to create an open, nonjudgmental space where a person's own goals guide the pace and direction of work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences, and may blend techniques over time as progress is tracked.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to build consistent care into a busy life.