What happens after you book?
Once you book, you'll receive a confirmation email with everything you need for your first session
There is no pressure to know exactly what's wrong to talk about - your therapist will guide the first session gently at your pace.
Meet Chandel
Specialising in Couples, Families and Young People
Most couples don’t arrive in therapy because everything is broken. They come because communication has become strained, trust feels uncertain, or life changes have placed pressure on the relationship.
You might be finding the same arguments keep repeating. That conversation quickly turns into conflict or silence. Parenting, stress, past experiences or unmet needs are sitting between you. Or that you’re unsure whether the relationship can change – or whether separation might be the next step.
I’m Chandel, a registered BACP counsellor and trainee CORST therapist, specialising in working with couples and families navigating the realities of modern relationships, including communication difficulties, separation, trust breaches, parenting conflict, and the emotional impact of change and loss.
How We Work Together:
In couples therapy, my role is not to take sides or decide who is right or wrong. My focus is on creating a calm, balanced space where both voices are heard and difficult conversations can take place more safely.
Together we may work to:
- Understand repeating patterns of conflict, distance or shutdown
- Improve communication and emotional understanding
- explore the impact of trust breaches and affairs
- Reduce blame and increase clarity and compassion
- Support reconnection, clearer boundaries, or separation with care
You do not need to know the outcome before starting. Therapy can help you slow things down, think more clearly, and decide together what feels right.
My approach
My approach is integrative and relational, helping clients explore both the practical patterns shaping their relationships and the emotional experiences influencing how the respond to one another.
I offer a reflective, compassionate and professional space to make sense of what’s happening, develop healthier ways of communicating, and rebuild trust where possible. My work is grounded in ethical, inclusive and culturally sensitive practice, with attention to to how to identify, culture, trauma, sexuality, disability, and neurodivergence shape our relational lives.
Chandel also works with young people, offering a calm and supportive space to explore whatever may be feeling difficult or confusing. She works thoughtfully with teenagers and young adults who may be struggling with emotions, relationships, identity, or feeling under pressure, helping them make sense of their experiences at their own pace.
Family and wider relational work
Alongside couples therapy, I am experienced in supporting families through:
- Co-parenting challenges and parenting conflict
- Blended and complex family systems
- Extended family and in-law dynamics
- Intergenerational patterns that influence present relationships
- Family court proceedings and parental alienation
My role is to walk alongside you – helping you understand patterns, emotions and reactions, and supporting practical changes that can be carried into everyday life beyond the therapy room.
Over time, this process can help you feel more grounded, more in control, and more connected – both to yourself and to one another.
Criteria for my service
You don’t need to meet any criteria to work with me
Whoever you are and whatever you’re carrying, you are welcome here. Simply choose an appointment time that works for you and book directly from this page. I look forward to meeting you.
Areas I specialise In
Areas I specialise in:
- Relationship and family conflict
- Communication difficulties
- Separation and divorce
- Co-parenting and parenting challenges
- Life-transitions and change
- Anger and emotional regulation
- Anxiety, stress and burnout
- Low mood
- Men’s mental health
- Neurodivergence within relationships
- Identity, self-esteem and confidence
- Parental alienation and family court involvement
Accreditations
MBACP Member
COSRT Member
Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Years in practice:
Client Group
Couples and Families, Adults, Young People and Children
Grey Matters Centre works within clear safeguarding and ethical boundaries. If issues arise that sit outside our scope of practice, we will always support families to access the most appropriate services.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Counselling
- Contemporary relationship studies (Year 1 completed)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Zero Suicide Alliance Training Course
- Children who experience Domestic Abuse Course
- Radicalisation and Extremism Course
- Child to Parent Abuse Course
- Domestic Abuse Awareness Course
- Awareness of Private Fostering
Qualifications and registrations listed have been verified by Grey Matters Centre.
Fees
Adults £65 per 50 minute sessions.
Please only book your initial session here. All future sessions are to be booked with Chandel in person.
Cancellations of less than 48 hours notice will incur the full fee
Availability
Wednesday 9am – 1.00pm
Friday 9am – 1.00pm
My availability is displayed at the top pf this page. You are most welcome to choose the most suitable appointment for you and go ahead and book it.
If there are no dates shown I am afraid I am fully booked. I am so sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Please do take a look at our other therapists on our website as som of them will have spaces that you are most welcome to go ahead and book.
NB. Please do not book in with a therapist whom you have a connection with or you know in some way as they will be unable to work with you.If you wish to make a query on this please call 07907613600 to discuss this issue.
General Booking Enquiry
If has availability it will be displayed at the top of this page. You are welcome to choose the most suitable date for you and go ahead and book it without filling in this booking form.
if you'd like further support, you can submit a booking enquiry or simply ask a question
At Grey Matters Centre we are a highly professional organisation of independent, qualified, experienced Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Scunthorpe.
