Brenda Cloyd
Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LISW-CP
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker who brings 20 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting, grief, and relationship difficulties. Brenda uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people manage symptoms and make changes that matter in daily life.
Her sessions are warm and down-to-earth. She listens without judgment and helps people set small, achievable goals. Conversations often include skills practice, problem solving, and steps to improve coping between meetings.
Background and approach
Brenda draws from several evidence-based methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice values and take meaningful action.
Emotionally-Focused work supports clearer communication and connection around feelings. Her background includes two decades of clinical work in South Carolina. Brenda holds the LISW-CP credential, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice.
She has helped people facing life transitions, workplace stress, identity concerns, and complicated family issues. Sessions are offered in English and Brenda works with international clients. Therapy is available through options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for worry, low mood, and many stress-related problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy works with emotions and connection to help people express feelings more clearly and improve how they relate to others.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Brenda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, while phone sessions provide a simpler option when video is hard. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or when schedules are tight. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent momentum toward their goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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