Corinne Nechalova, MA, LPCC

MEET CORINNE

I’ve always been curious about what shapes us - and what helps us change.

For more than 15 years, I’ve helped people understand the patterns that shape how they feel, relate, and respond. More importantly, I help them practice new ways of meeting what happens in their lives.

My path into therapy began through yoga, movement, bodywork, and other healing practices before leading me to formal clinical training and trauma therapy. That path taught me early that our experiences do not live only in the stories we tell.

They can also appear in the breath we hold, the tension we stop noticing, and the reactions that happen before we have time to think.

This understanding continues to shape my work today. I help people connect what they understand intellectually with what they experience in their bodies, relationships, and everyday choices. Together, we create change that can be felt and used outside the therapy room.

What it’s like to work with me

I’m warm, direct, and not afraid of big feelings. I pay close attention to the moments that matter, including the ones that are difficult to put into words.

Our sessions may include conversation, body awareness, mindfulness, movement, EMDR, and guided experiential work. We might slow down a reaction, notice where an emotion appears physically, or explore what happens inside when you imagine setting a boundary or making a different choice.

Insight gives us valuable information. Change becomes lived when you begin practicing something different in the moments when an old pattern would usually take over.

I will support you, and I will also challenge you when challenge is useful. Clients often tell me they feel safe and grounded with me. Over time, they become steadier, more aware, and clearer about what they need.

I also believe therapy can be enjoyable. It can be interesting, energizing, funny, and even fun. Humor belongs in the room alongside grief, fear, anger, and uncertainty.

People often leave feeling lighter. Not because we avoided what was difficult, but because they no longer feel as alone inside it.

When cancer changed the plan

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I believed I would get through treatment and return to the person I had been before.

That isn’t what happened.

After treatment, I struggled with anxiety and a changed relationship with my body. Cancer reorganized my priorities, affected my relationships, and changed how I wanted to spend my time. I made significant changes in my life and, in some ways, came to feel like a different person.

My experience is not every survivor’s experience. But it gave me an intimate understanding of the territory that can begin during and after cancer treatment.

The immediate crisis may have passed. Other people may be ready to move forward. Meanwhile, you may still be processing what happened, rebuilding trust in your body, reconsidering what matters, and discovering who you are becoming.

That experience now informs Rise Reimagined, my body-informed cancer survivorship work. Rise Reimagined supports survivors across cancer diagnoses with anxiety and nervous system regulation, body connection, grief and emotional processing, identity and meaning-making, and the question of what comes next.

Beyond the therapy room

I love movement, yoga, dancing, music, nature, cooking, and being in or near the water. I’ve traveled widely and still love the curiosity and perspective that come from experiencing a new place.

I also love building projects and developing programs. At home, I’m usually tinkering with, fixing, rearranging, or creating something.

I love my cat, fully support daytime dance parties, and approach the sauna with a level of enthusiasm that may be slightly disproportionate.

I’m serious about this work. I also believe healing should leave room for pleasure, play, curiosity, humor, and the parts of us that feel most alive.