Chante Cross , LPC

Chante Cross is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with ten years of post-master's experience. As an LPC, she holds a professional credential to provide counseling and therapeutic services. Her practice focuses on helping people navigate stress and anxiety, build motivation and self-esteem, manage depression, and address career-related concerns.

She views each person as the expert on their own story and emphasizes the strengths clients bring to the process of change. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Somatic Therapy, she guides clients toward practical skills and strategies that support emotional regulation, clearer thinking, and improved coping.

Chante works with a wide range of concerns, including relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, intimacy-related issues, parenting struggles, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, aging and geriatric concerns, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, co-morbidity, codependency, commitment and communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, emptiness, family of origin work, and topics related to BDSM and alternative sex culture.

She emphasizes a collaborative, empowering approach and supports clients who are ready to take steps toward greater fulfillment and well-being. Chante aims to help people identify meaningful goals and to build the skills needed to move toward the life they want.

Approaches for Online Care and Remote Therapeutic Work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In practical terms it teaches tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress by changing patterns of thinking and testing new behaviors. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clients’ strengths and future goals, emphasizing small, concrete steps that lead to measurable progress; it is useful for resolving specific problems and building momentum toward desired changes. Somatic Therapy connects bodily experiences with emotions and can help people notice and change physical patterns linked to trauma, chronic stress, or intense emotional reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Chante collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This exploratory stance allows the therapist and client to adapt techniques over time so the work remains practical and personally meaningful.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in this work: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to schedule sessions around life demands and to access support from different locations. Licensed professionals and therapists can effectively adapt these approaches for remote care, helping clients build skills and move toward their goals with more convenience and accessibility.