Abel Chanes

I am a therapist of color with over 15 years in the behavioral health and mental health field working with children and their families, adults, veterans, and Native Americans. I am licensed to provide telehealth therapy in Arizona and Hawaii. My focus isn’t to tell you what’s wrong with you or tell you that you’re broken, but helping build on your strengths, your resilience, and past successes. I also specialize in working with men, men of color, and fathers to help support their unique experiences and address their challenges. Whether you are navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, life transitions, feelings of lost confidence or direction, it can take a real toll on you. You don’t have to keep carrying it alone.

I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Solution Focused Brief therapy to make sessions collaborative and focused on your outcomes. Utilizing these approaches helps to identify what is working in your life, your strengths, and your past successes to help overcome the thought patterns and behaviors keeping you stuck. The goal is to have you leave a session with a clearer perspective, hope, and a next step.

The first session should feel like a conversation, not an evaluation. You can expect to be heard, validated, and empowered. We’ll also focus on what the outcomes you are wanting to achieve and the strengths you already have that can help you work towards those outcomes. Together we’ll come up with a personalized plan that incorporates where you are currently at and where you’d like to be.