Chantelle Belinfantie, BACP

Chantelle Belinfantie is a qualified and licensed counsellor based in the United Kingdom with over nine years of professional experience. She works in an integrative way, blending psychodynamic, person-centred, and cognitive behavioural methods to create tailored support that reflects each client's needs and circumstances.

Her practice has involved working with children, young people, and adults facing a wide range of emotional, psychological, and behavioural challenges. Chantelle has particular experience supporting people with learning and physical disabilities and those managing complex mental health issues. Much of her work focuses on adults coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem.

Chantelle is also a trained bereavement counsellor and contributed four years of volunteer service with a bereavement counselling agency, helping clients process loss and develop personalised coping strategies. At the centre of her approach is a commitment to a respectful, non-judgemental therapeutic relationship where clients feel heard and supported as they work toward change.

She holds the BACP credential (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and brings a compassionate, collaborative style to therapy, believing in each person’s capacity for resilience and growth.

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Chantelle Belinfantie

Chantelle uses client-centred therapy to create an accepting and empathetic space where clients can explore their feelings at their own pace - this approach supports self-esteem, relationship concerns, and emotional processing. She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and develop practical strategies for issues such as anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviours. When appropriate, elements of psychodynamic therapy are used to explore early relationships and unconscious patterns that influence current difficulties, which can be helpful for longstanding relational or emotional problems.

Finding the best approach is treated as a collaborative process. Chantelle works with each person to understand their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts methods over time so the therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call or phone allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, while live chat and text-based messaging provide alternative ways to connect that can feel more manageable for some clients. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not possible.