CHANI SANCHEZ
Appointments in Broad River, Asheville & online throughout North Carolina
Appointments in Broad River, Asheville & online throughout North Carolina
Counseling & Therapy for Adults, Children & Families
What feels unbearable becomes possible, together
Meet Chani
Welcome!
If you are looking for an attuned counselor—for deep personal change,
if you are interested in the gradual process of rebuilding yourself from the inside out,
you have come to the right place.
While many of the people I work with come in thinking of themselves as “trauma survivors,” many don’t.
I specialize in helping clients dealing with:
Complex trauma (also known as developmental or relational trauma)
Dissociation, Avoidance, Hyporegulation (shut-down/withdrawal)
Anxiety and Anxious Attachment
Depression and complicated grief
Self-esteem issues
Sleep concerns
Relationship challenges
Loss and life transitions
I draw from a wide range of science and theory, but my work is most deeply grounded in an Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) framework which emphasizes how our humanity is shaped, injured, and enhanced by our closest bonds and how those relations meet or miss our deepest needs.
I offer Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT).
With young children, I offer therapeutic play and parenting.
I hold a master’s degree (magna cum laude, Phi Alpha Chi) in Christian Counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
There is “a time to heal” (Eccl. 3:3). I look forward to connecting with you.
Pathways of Care
Explore a range of Adult, Child & Family, and Group Therapy services
for the relief of symptoms related to trauma, anxiety, disassociation, depression, grief, self-esteem, and relationship issues
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Emotion Focused Individual Therapy, EFIT
Grounded in attachment science and utilizing the power of bonding, emotion and imagination, EFIT is a transformative approach to individual healing that offers lasting change and well-being. Helping individuals bring balance to their inner experiences while fostering stronger, more fulfilling relationships with Self and Others.
$150 per 55 min
Learn more about EFIT
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, ART
With the use of rapid eye movements, ART relieves and frees clients struggling with a range of mental health symptoms including those related to trauma, anxiety and depression that may have been present for many years.
$225 per 90 min
Learn more about ART
Rest and Restore Protocol, RRP
But it’s not all in the Mind. Directly engaging the Nervous System in healing, RRP takes a fresh approach to the way our brain connects with our body. RRP promotes your capacity to truly step into your regulated and embodied Self.
$150 per 55 min session
Learn more about RRP
Imaginal Nurturance, IN
Attachment research puts a fine point on the importance of our early relationships with caregivers. These relationships are the context of our lives as we grow and develop and monumentally shape us as adults.
While other approaches aim to resolve things that ‘should not’ have happened (like trauma), IN correctively addresses early-life relationship needs.
$150 per 55-mins
Learn more about IN
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Emotion Focused Family Therapy, EFFT
Following the attachment principles of Emotion Focused Therapy, EFFT restores connection and promotes resilience in family relationships, whether between parents of adolescent, teen, or adult children.
$255 per 85 mins
Circles of Security Parent Training, COSP
Crystalizing and condensing attachment science into a comprehensive Parenting Protocol that is as applicable to parents of infants as it is to parents of adult children.
$150 per 55 mins
Young Child & Parent Therapy
Secure attachment between a child and her caregiver is the basis of lifelong mental health and of resilience when facing adversity. Primary relationships are the way in which children come to understand, trust and thrive in their world.
Over time our work in the therapy establishes in you and your child a felt sense of safety, increased social engagement, expanded emotion regulation, and the development of positive self-esteem for both child and caregiver.
$150 per 55 mins
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Finding Solid Ground Groups, FSG
FSG is a highly effective and gentle approach to support clients out of entrenched patterns of dissociation.
Participants learn to feel more present, regulate overwhelming emotions, strengthen self-compassion, and develop concrete strategies for managing their symptoms and triggers. FSG is a structured, supportive group program.
Groups are facilitated online.
$55 per 55 min
Specialized Groups
Topics and pricing forthcoming
Are you a First Responder on the frontlines of a North Carolina community?
Did you know that your trauma-symptoms (tension, adrenaline, nightmares, flashbacks, panic, high-alert, etc.) could be relieved in as little as one to four therapy sessions?
Using an evidence-based, highly effective, rapid recovery model called Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART),
and in partnership with the Rosenzweig Mission,
I am offering individual First Responders in the state of North Carolina
one complimentary ART session for a limited time. Sessions run June to September, 2026.
Let yourself find renewal. Request your appointment now.
Begin with a free 15 min consultation
