Chanel Treadwell

Hey girlies! I'm Chanel, an LPCC in California and an LMHC in Washington, my original and current hometown states.

Most of the women I work with look like they've got it all handled, to the outside observer. Professional success, people leaning on them, a busy lifestyle, and the 11pm text from someone who's counting on them. Then they sit down with me and the first thing out of their mouth is usually "Everything's fine, I just wanted to talk through one thing," and it's never just one thing. It's the anxiety they've gotten so good at managing that they might have stopped noticing it. Or a relationship that's been "okay" for way too long. Or they're waking up in a life that checks every box on paper but still feels "off."

Typically, we'll end up working through career pressures, relationships that need an honest look, family dynamics that started long before adulthood, or becoming a mom and quietly grieving who you were before. My experiences at University of Washington and Loma Linda University are where a lot of my clinical approach comes from, but in the room what I actually bring is directness. I'll tell you what I'm noticing, even when it's not the comfortable thing. I'll also laugh with you. This isn't fifty minutes of just nodding, or asking "and how was that for you?"

Clinically, I pull from evidence-based approaches, but I don't think insight alone fixes a dysregulated nervous system, and believe in a more holistic and integrated approach. We'll talk about sleep, movement, your environment, the stuff outside your head that's quietly running the show. You leave each session with something to actually do, not just something to sit with.

I'll let you talk something through as many ways as you need to, but at some point I'm going to gently name the pattern I'm hearing underneath it, so we can get to the root of it instead of circling it again next week. From there, we get practical: what does an actual boundary conversation with your mom sound like, said out loud, in the room? What actually happens in your body when your partner brings up money? The work isn't just understanding why you're anxious, it's building the muscle to do something different the next time it shows up.

Some weeks that looks like untangling a thought spiral. Other weeks it's practicing the text you're too scared to send, or figuring out why your shoulders have been up around your ears since 10am. I pull from evidence-based approaches for anxiety and stress, and I also want us to acknowledge that your sleep, your relationships, and the fact that you haven't taken a full breath since Tuesday are all tangled up together.

My hope for you isn't just that you feel better during our hour together, but that you walk away from each session with something that actually holds up once you're back in your daily life.

Your first session is going to feel more like a conversation than an interview, even though I do need to ask some intake-style questions, like what brought you in, what's been the loudest thing in your head lately, and how long it's been going on. You don't need to walk in with it all organized into a neat timeline; half my job in that first hour is just helping you find the words for something you've been carrying around unnamed.

We'll also spend time exploring your history. I want to get to know the whole picture of you: where you came from, what family and culture looked like growing up, who's actually in your support system, what work's been like, what you do for fun (or if you've even had time for that), what's been quietly stressing you out, how you're sleeping, how you're eating. It might sound like a lot, but it's still a conversation, with me trying to understand the full picture, and not just the anxious thoughts sitting on top of it. We won't rush, and will take time to match a pace that feels comfortable for you. This first session is as much about you getting a feel for whether it's the right fit as it is about me getting to know your story.

You'll probably leave that first session feeling lighter, not because we solved anything, but because you were finally in a space where you could say the whole thing out loud.