I choose to be curious, honour our rage and to reclaim liberated joy.
Interests: Through lived experience personally and through close relationships around suicidality, mental illness,
neurodivergent existence and racialized experiences in so-called Canada, Chantel is keen on alternative modes of safety planning for clients and does not subscribe to carceral/state mental health responses.
Modalities: Chantel is trained in and uses a foundation of CBT, person-centered and narrative modalities. They are open to testing out methods that have worked for clients in the past and new techniques that clients are curious about.
Accountability: Chantel’s political knowledge and leanings have been and continue to be shaped by close community members in the QTBIPOC community and by disabled, sick and immunocompromised kin as the we continue living through the pandemic. They are inspired by and held accountable by colleagues, peers, community members and social justice movements/callouts/call ins.
