Chantale is an internationally renown addiction and trauma specialist, specialist counsellor, consultant, Brainspotting Trainer In Training, and founder of Brainspotting Middle East & North Africa.

Beirut born, Sydney raised, and residing in Dubai, she holds two decades expertise in the rehabilitation sector across Australasia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. Her passion is to relieve unnecessary suffering, and provide pathways to long term healing and recovery through cutting edge neuroscience and psychotherapy.

Chantale was awarded 'Young Alumni for Outstanding Achievement' from the University of Sydney in 2016, recognised as a Health Science Thought Leader, and Sydney Health Leaders invited speaker on multiple occasions. She has presented at numerous conferences internationally on brainspotting, addiction, trauma resolution, high performance, family interventions, and pathways for residential services.

Chantale’s career began in long-term residential treatment, initially in clinical case management, soon to coordinating operations of residential treatment facilities. During this period, observing a gap for Middle Eastern communities in Australia, Chantale simultaneously cofounded a non-profit residential treatment service in 2011, for culturally-specific communities. This service continues to operate in Sydney, Australia, under the patronage of the Maronite Eparchy of Australia.

Witnessing a need for early intervention, she founded her private practice in 2013, providing interventions and outpatient addiction recovery. This quickly grew to service elite sports and corporates, working with renowned athletes and creatives, c-suite executives, public figures and royal family members. Services expanded to workshops for schools, universities & elite sports clubs worldwide; and became the preferred intervention provider to Australia's largest rehabilitation centres, with her Compassion Focused Intervention model.

Through continued education, Chantale came across the modality of Brainspotting. This revolutionised the speed and safety of trauma resolution with her clients, as she journeyed through all phase trainings and numerous specialty trainings, seeing the immense benefit in therapeutic practice.

Under the direction of Dr David Grand, the founder of Brainspotting, Chantale is being trained as the first Brainspotting Trainer in the Middle East & North Africa. Chantale’s hope is to develop practitioners to become consultants and eventual trainers of their own communities and countries within MENA, making this astounding modality accessible to all.