Chanel Carlile, LCMHC

Chanel Carlile, LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor), is a licensed clinician practicing in Utah who brings a balanced blend of training and real-world experience to her work. She holds an M.Ed. in clinical mental health counseling and a B.S. in psychology, and over five years she has supported people coping with anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, addiction, and co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns. Her background includes roles in both private practice and community-based mental health settings, which has allowed her to work with a wide range of presentations from panic and obsessive compulsive symptoms to personality and psychotic disorders.

Chanel approaches therapy as a collaborative process, offering practical tools to reduce immediate distress while also exploring deeper patterns that contribute to ongoing difficulty. She avoids a one-size-fits-all model and tailors evidence-based strategies to each person’s personality, values, and life circumstances. Her theoretical foundation draws on humanistic and psychodynamic principles and she frequently integrates approaches such as acceptance and commitment, strengths-based work, cognitive behavioral, and narrative techniques to meet the needs of each client.

She places strong value on the therapeutic relationship, aiming to form authentic, respectful, and caring connections. Chanel expresses a clear belief in each person’s inherent worth and invites clients to bring their whole selves to therapy—the strengths, the struggles, and everything in between. Outside of clinical work she enjoys collaging, crossword puzzles, collecting rocks, making up songs for her dog, photographing the sky, and indulging in a spoonful of peanut butter. She admits to being an accomplished procrastinator who often avoids laundry and stays up too late, a reminder that she embraces her own humanity.