William Perks
Calm, practical guidance for life transitions
- Credentials
- LICSW, LISW-CP
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About William
William Perks is a licensed social worker with 39 years of experience. He holds LICSW and LISW-CP credentials and maintains a practice based in South Carolina. He offers resources and guidance aimed at people facing common life challenges.
His work often centers on practical steps parents and adults can take to cope and move forward. Perks keeps things straightforward in sessions. He helps people look at thoughts and actions, life history, and personal values.
Background and approach
He focuses on clear goals and small, manageable changes. He also offers a structured eight-session program called "I AM READY" for those wanting a concentrated period of learning and skill building. Outside of scheduled meetings he curates informational resources.
These include a YouTube channel of playlists and several Facebook groups covering topics like coping, bereavement, ADHD, parenting, and self-development. Those resources are intended to extend learning between sessions and offer practical ideas to try at home. He works with clients to review beliefs, habits, and expectations and to identify options that fit their situation.
Sessions emphasize skills, activities, and tools that people can practice outside of therapy. The aim is to increase useful choices and everyday functioning. Before committing to a longer course, people can begin with a shorter set of sessions.
The first meeting is used to discuss qualifications, approach, and fit so individuals can decide whether to continue. Follow-up materials and suggested exercises are often provided.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move a person toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. These approaches are useful for stress, mood concerns, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively and may combine approaches to match the client's needs.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. These options let people fit sessions around school, work, or caregiving duties and practice skills between meetings. Messaging and chat can support brief check-ins, while video or phone sessions allow for deeper conversations and guided exercises.
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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