Founder and Clinic Director
Meet Chantale Pomerleau
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Chantale (she/her) is an attachment-based and trauma-informed Registered Social Worker providing therapy in Cambridge and virtually across Ontario.
Sessions with Chantale are warm, empathetic, and collaborative. She is committed to building a foundation of trust in the therapeutic relationship, creating a space where clients feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported.
Chantale understands that therapy can be a powerful model for secure attachment, and she is dedicated to supporting her clients at their own pace.
Prior to launching The Mindful Place, Chantale worked with a national nonprofit organization for several years, where she provided individual and family support, system navigation, and led advocacy campaigns and school presentation programs. Additionally, she worked in Family Health Teams, providing individual psychotherapy in collaboration with allied health clinicians to hundreds of teens and adults.
Read on to learn about Chantale’s focus areas, therapy modalities, and fun facts outside of The Mindful Place.
- Master of Social Work (MSW) — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Honours Bachelor of Arts, Psychology — University of Guelph
- Minor, Family and Child Studies — University of Guelph
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
- Ontario Association of Social Workers
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — Association for Psychological Therapies
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Level 1 — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Level 2 — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Crisis Responder Training — Kids Help Phone
- Early Developmental Trauma: From Imprint to Blueprint — Wilfrid Laurier University
- EMDR Basic Training (150 hours) — Sue Genest, EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Training Provider
- Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy — International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Making Sense of Attachment — Mission: Empowerment
- Mindful Self-Compassion — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Mindfulness for Trauma — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Narrative Therapy — Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute
- Polyvagal Theory: A Bottom-Up Approach to Treatment — Wilfrid Laurier University
- Redeveloping Secure Adult Attachments — Wilfrid Laurier University
Chantale Supports Her Clients With
- Anxiety
- Assertiveness
- Boundary Setting
- Communication
- Depression
- Family Dynamics
- Emotion Regulation
- Parentification
- People-Pleasing
- Relationship Anxiety
- Self-Compassion
- Stress Management
- Trauma
- Trust Issues
Therapeutic Approaches
Chantale uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindful Self-Compassion, Polyvagal Theory, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Strength-Based Therapy.
Let's Work Together If:
- You’d like to explore your attachment “blueprint” to understand how your attachment style(s), patterns, and past experiences influence how you think, feel, and act today
- You feel anxious, avoidant, and/or struggle to trust in relationships due to relational trauma
- You want to learn how to regulate your emotions and increase joy, peace, and connection within your mind and body
- You grew up with emotionally immature parents or caregivers and want to heal from the roles, expectations, and responsibilities placed upon you
- You have a pattern of people-pleasing, worrying, overworking, and feeling burnt out from being in service to others
- You want to set boundaries and communicate assertively in your relationships, increase self compassion, and prioritize your own needs
- You’d like to have warm, collaborative, and thoughtful conversations that incorporate multiple perspectives, creative strategies, and resources
Services provided by a Registered Social Worker may be covered by many Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and extended health care plans.
How Chantale Stays Grounded
Chantale practices mindfulness in her own life through time in nature, movement, and travel that inspires reflection. Whether walking local trails, enjoying a dance class or resistance workout, or soaking up sunshine, she values connecting to new experiences, and engaging her body as part of her wellness routine. Some of her favourite places which left her awestruck and exude “being in the moment” are:
