Chanel Carlile, LCMHC

Chanel Carlile is a licensed clinical mental health counselor practicing in Utah who draws on five years of clinical experience to support people through anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, addiction, and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. She holds an M.Ed. in clinical mental health counseling and a B.S. in psychology, and practices with the credential LCMHC - which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Her background includes work in both private practice and community-based mental health settings, giving her experience with a wide range of presentations from panic and obsessive compulsive disorder to personality and psychotic disorders.

Chanel approaches therapy as a collaborative work of finding practical tools to reduce immediate distress while also exploring underlying patterns that contribute to ongoing difficulties. She draws from a variety of established theories and evidence-based techniques, adapting them to fit each person’s personality, values, and life context. While her foundation includes humanistic and psychodynamic principles, she often integrates acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral methods, strengths-based ideas, and narrative approaches to create individualized care.

Chanel places a high value on the therapeutic relationship and on helping people feel seen and heard. She affirms each person’s inherent worth and aims to create an atmosphere of genuine respect and curiosity where all parts of a person can be explored. Outside of work she enjoys collaging, solving crosswords, spoonfuls of peanut butter, collecting rocks, making up songs for her dog, and photographing the sky, and she brings an authentic, relatable presence to her practice.