About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker with twenty years of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She works with individuals who are coping with depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and major life changes. Brenda aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel overwhelmed.
Her sessions focus on clear goals and small steps. She uses tools to manage difficult emotions, improve sleep and eating patterns, and rebuild self-esteem.
Background and approach
Conversations often center on everyday problems like work strain, relationship difficulties, and parenting stress, so solutions can fit into real life. Brenda draws on several evidence-based approaches and adapts them to each person. She emphasizes collaboration and respects each client's pace and values.
Many clients find this helpful when facing transitions such as divorce, adoption and foster care challenges, or career shifts. Her background includes long-term work with trauma survivors and people affected by addiction and first responder stress. She also supports concerns around ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue.
Brenda brings decades of practical experience to sessions and focuses on building resilience over time. Brenda holds the South Carolina LISW-CP credential, which signals advanced clinical social work training. She offers sessions to people in South Carolina and accepts international clients in English.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and decisions during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood, worry, or sleep problems. It is practical and skills-based for day-to-day struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brenda collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals. She mixes tools from different approaches and adjusts the pace so clients feel comfortable trying new strategies.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversations, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing written support. These options give flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it simpler to maintain regular contact while working on stress, anxiety, and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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